when her first wd mybook died afte 15 minutes of use, she went and got another, after my warning...when i was just looking to see if the problem was widespread...
so now 3 months later...it's dead dead...and it behaved in the way drives do when they've ran for about 5-8 years...sometimes comes on...sometimes takes 5 minutes to access...then 15...then 30....etc
I'm going to see if she still has it and see if I can slave it in this machine...hmm, maybe I'm not too late