If you’ve removed the VCD from the EAVS, then you can now only hook it up to a SATA port on the motherboard and use it as an internal – the enclosure is no longer any good to you.Īnd I don’t get why the firmware for a Caviar would have been in the MyBook section in the first place – I’m not surprised that it’s not. The VCD is needed for the drive locking functions of the MyBook.
It’s interesting that you say the drive was 9 months old, and yet the HD inside it is only 4 months old… was the 9 a typo, or are you trying to change the drive inside the enclosure?īecause, if you’re trying to either switch the drive or to remove the VCD partition from it, then it won’t work when you put it back in the enclosure. Of course, opening the case and connecting the drive directly to your motherboard through SATA has voided your warranty, so whatever the problem was that was causing your computer to suddenly crash after 4 months, I think you’re on your own here now. The firmware updates available from WD only apply to the previous generations of My Book Essential. What your drive shipped with is the current version of the firmware.
As far as I can tell, the firmware for the 2.0’s hasn’t been updated… there is no firmware update to download.
