WD 2TB My Book Essentials external drive not recognized

MaddMaxximus

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Jul 12, 2014
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My families external drive used to be used to watch movies and such off of until we got a new router which allows usbs to be connected to that and streamed across wifi. Today we tried to watch a movie off it and it wasnt showing up on the network. we took it out of the ceiling and plugged into the old PC. the power light on it comes on when its given power from the adapter but the drive doesnt appear once its connected via USB cable. help?