WD MY BOOK 3TB IS ONLY 2.72 TB WINDOWS 8

The port itself is not busted as I can plug a USB mouse into it but I have no other USB3 devices to test however the MyBook works fine in several other laptops both in Ubuntu and Windows. Now most things have been going fine except for nVidia Optimus (but I won't get into that here) until this morning I woke up and the USB3 port would not detect the WD MyBook (again this an external hdd).

WD MY BOOK 3TB IS ONLY 2.72 TB WINDOWS 8

So last week I grabbed an ASUS N56VZ (two in fact) and an ASUS S56CM and threw Ubuntu 13.04 on both (had to disable secure boot for S56CM since it was a windows 8 laptop). = break as in no new info for a few months I made no changes to BIOS, firmware, or any OS installations. It always works in USB2 and sometimes would be detected in the USB3 port after a system restart or after successfully connecting to a USB3 port in another machine (usually windows 7).Īfter two weeks the issue ceased and the MyBook would always be detected by the USB3 port. When I say it happened a few more times I mean randomly one morning I would go to plug the MyBook into the USB3 port and it would not be detected after working fine the night before. I actually had this come up a few more times over the next week or two and was starting to surmise that Ubuntu has spotty support for USB 3 connectivity. What made even less sense is that this also caused it to be redetected by the G74Sx (running Ubuntu 13.04). I plugged the drive into a Windows laptop with USB 3 and everything seemed to work okay.

One day I noticed that it was not detected in the USB 3.0 port but it was detected in any of the USB 2 ports. I have a WD 3TB MyBook external hard drive. This is when I first noticed the problem. So I initially had an ASUS RoG G74Sx laptop with 1 USB 3.0 port and 3 USB 2.0 ports. USB 3.0 devices are sometimes not detected when connected to a USB 3.0 port however work fine when connected to a USB 2.0 port. Here's the problem… and it's only intermittent however it IS happening to me right now and I figured it was a great opportunity to post some console output to try and gleam as much information as possible: One thing I know for sure is that it happens to a lot people in Windows and they can't solve it by tinkering with settings (duh, cause it's happening outside of windows) but some people seem to be able to fix it by updating USB drivers, so… I've done some researching over the internet and this seems to be… I don't know… a hardware problem? I can't tell exactly.

Wd my book 3tb is only 2.72 tb