Originally setup drive to have lots of pictures (1k+), songs (30k+) and other MS office type documents. This was running successfully for over 2 years without issues with
windows 8.1. Then one morning (<2 weeks ago), the power light went solid red, yet both drive 1 and 2 stayed as solid blue. Since then cannot see the drive listed within windows explore or ping/traceroute to either the hostname or ip address staticly assigned. Restoring this device is ESSENTIAL since wedding pictures are on this drive, along with many copies of different desktop/laptop images, etc. After having drive after drive from competitors go bad, I decided to try Western Digital. Out of approx 10 WD drives, 5-6 have gone completely bad now too. I guess its time to move onto another drivemaker since WD is not much different than the others who have crashed.
Yes I have tried resetting the drive multiple times. After resetting, the drive loads up and both the power and drive 1 and 2 are blinking blue as the drive goes thru the motions. Then once done loading, the power is solid red and drive 1 and 2 are solid blue. Never during loading or once completed is the drive accessible via ping/traceroute or thru Windows Explorer. Is there a way to access the drive and/or data without losing the files (family pictures/movies/songs that were housed on it?
For whatever reason, my basic troubleshooting habits escaped me. The network cable that was connected went bad some how. Replaced the cat-5e cable with another one, and poof…the connectivity was back working again. Really not that dumb in real life. Thanks anyway.
