1. Windows 7 on first drive
2. Windows 8 on second drive
3. Manually swapped drives by unhooking cable and plugging it into whichever I wanted to boot.
4. WD MyBook worked fine as long as I swapped the individual drives around.
Then . . .
5. I partitioned the Windows 7 drive and put Windows 8 on the new partition.
6. Dual Boot system was uccessfully created on Windows 7 Drive.
7. My WD MyBook continued to work fine after Dual Boot was set up.
Then . . .
8. I unplugged the Dual Boot drive and plugged in the "abandoned" drive with Windows 8 on it because I needed to figure out which of my Office 2010 product keys I'd used (I have several) for Win 8.
And that's when disaster struck . . .
Although my WD MyBook shows up, it's no longer shown as MyBook, but as Local Disk K: and when I try to open it, I get the message: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
I went into Disk Management, and the drive info says it's RAW. Which I think should be NTFS, but I'm not sure, nor am I sure of how to change it.
2. Windows 8 on second drive
3. Manually swapped drives by unhooking cable and plugging it into whichever I wanted to boot.
4. WD MyBook worked fine as long as I swapped the individual drives around.
Then . . .
5. I partitioned the Windows 7 drive and put Windows 8 on the new partition.
6. Dual Boot system was uccessfully created on Windows 7 Drive.
7. My WD MyBook continued to work fine after Dual Boot was set up.
Then . . .
8. I unplugged the Dual Boot drive and plugged in the "abandoned" drive with Windows 8 on it because I needed to figure out which of my Office 2010 product keys I'd used (I have several) for Win 8.
And that's when disaster struck . . .
Although my WD MyBook shows up, it's no longer shown as MyBook, but as Local Disk K: and when I try to open it, I get the message: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
I went into Disk Management, and the drive info says it's RAW. Which I think should be NTFS, but I'm not sure, nor am I sure of how to change it.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion 500-056
- CPU
- AMD Elite Quad-Core A8-6500
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD Radeon HD 8570D
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer 23"
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB
- Keyboard
- Logitech Wave K350
- Mouse
- Logitech M510
- Internet Speed
- Fast
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender