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Ehem, last time I looked, I was female!! ;-)
Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: andrew holway [mailto:andrew at moonet.co.uk] 
Sent: 14 January 2008 16:06
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Subject: Re: [_] WD MyBook Woe

Crikey man, take it back!!!

On Jan 14, 2008 10:11 AM, Sam Mignano - Analyst <sam at beyondmetrix.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
> I bought a terabyte Western Digital MyBook World yesterday from PC World,
> because it supposedly would sit on the network and we could do scheduled
> auto backups to it from any machine.
>
> Ha!
>
> So far I have spent/wasted a day on it.
>
> It wasn't off to a great start when I found that the sealed box had been
> shipped with no driver cd, despite the box saying it was inside.
>
> Eventually after jumping through several WD hoops, I managed to get access
> to the drivers for it from their website.
>
> I ran the drivers only to find I have to use some online system for it to
> work at all cos the drivers are tied in to MioNet?
>
> According to the manual its just (!) plug in, install and then work. Grrrr
>
> Well I installed the software, it registered itself on my router config
> but
> yet didn't appear as a drive, I cant write to it, see it or use it, plus
> its
> making odd scratchy noises like there is a small mouse trapped inside!
> Now my system with MioNause, sorry MioNet, installed is limping along and
> hanging intermittently, and rebooting takes about 10 minutes!! On loading
> it
> complains that the MioNet driver is not installed but then MioNet appears
> and says all is fine.
> Ughhhh I give up.
> In short - what a £200 load of cr at p!!
>
> Has anyone ever got one of these working? Are they worth the money? I made
> the mistake of buying without researching first and have since googled to
> find that loads of people have had probs with this model too.
> Turns out that even when they do eventually back up at the pace of an
> geriatric slug, WD drives are often not that reliable anyway? Deep joy!
>
> Sam "I'll buy it!" Mignano
>
>
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