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Backups fail because my 1 TB external HDD My Book keeps shutting down.

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I can't get my backups to complete because after one or two of the backup files get created the My Book keeps shutting off. This is happening with both a 328 GB and 1 TB My Book. Once the disk shuts off it disappears from Windows Explorer. I have just upgraded from the 2012 version. I'm running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on a Dell XPS computer. Any ideas why the disk keeps shutting off?

TIA,
Bruce Brandt

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Check the Windows Power Settings, maybe Windows is set up to turn off disks after a certain time?

Check this. Go to
Start/All Programs/Western Digital/WD Utilities/Sleep Timer
Change your sleep timer setting to a longer time or never.

Turns out the problem was that I had another external HDD plugged into the computer at the same time. As soon as I disconnected that drive the backup went without a hitch. Thanks for the other tips.