Recent content by GeorgeM

Thank you to everyone who contributed their valuable information and experience to this issue, which I believe is now resolved. I had tried the last resort of moving all my data from the WD drive to another big USB drive, then reformatting from xFAT to NTFS, with very disappointing results - no...

Thanks to everyone who responded to my original post - I've read (and reread about 4 times) all of your responses. My external drive is the exact one pictured above by Dru2; both computers I've had the same issue with are Dell XPS desktops, one with Win-10 and the new one with Win-11; the BIOS...

Both with my previous operating system (Win-10) and with my current operating system (Win-11) when the WD drive is plugged in to the USB port the computer hangs on booting and will not boot until the power is shut down, the drive is unplugged, and the power button is pressed to restart. Once...