My Book essential 2 TB

[marabubout]

Hello,

I enjoy many years my WD TV LITE (1GEN) with a WD My Book Essential 2 TB until a few days ago when a bug crash the system.
Since then WDTV doesn't recognize the hard drive anymore on any of the USB port.
I can still however access the files from my HD throught my laptop
I found on internet that there was a kind of knows bug with the compatibility between WDTV Lite and WD My book essential but the only solution that they suggest i to reformate the Hard drive! What is not really an option for me.

Doesn't any one can advice me something else please?

Thanks for your help

[recliq]

Run disk check on the drive on your laptop, most likely the filesystem is marked dirty and WDTV might not mount it because of this.