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Extracting Data from a WD MyBook External Disk
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Mar 15, 2026732 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a WD Essentials MyBook, which was working fine as my Time Machine volume on Snow Leopard. I have since upgraded to Lion and now the disk is really slow to access. I tried to take the disk out of the caddy and just plug it into SATA and it comes up saying that the disk "could not be initialis…
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Fix for: Extracting Data from a WD MyBook External Disk
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I found and worked round the 'problem' in the end, its was 16 bad sectors that where locking up the disk in OSX over USB. Fix Part1: The disk HAS to be read via the MyBook caddy as even if you dont set a password in the software the caddy STILL does…
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