"The drive is not ready" on new Western Digital MyBook external drive
Bought a new MyBook 1TB USB drive. Plugged it in, went into Acronis and attempted to configure a backup to be saved to it. Upon saving the configuration, received the attached "The drive is not ready" error message. Entered the specified code (0x0004000B+0x0000FFF0+0x80070015) in at the knowledgebase, and got a "We are sorry" page; nothing was found.
I did find this article, which looked promising: http://kb.acronis.com/content/4071. Unfortunately, my drive was already configured properly (Optimize for quick removal) by default.
The drive is indeed ready and can be written to. I'd appreciate any help, as I bought this drive just for Acronis backups.
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Yes, I can create files and folders. It shows up under My Computer. No drives shown as not working in Device Manager.
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