Engadget reports that some users bought an external hard drive shaped like a book and ended up with "terabytes" worth of data. Years of memories, months of hard work, and years of memories vanished in an instant. According to Western Digital, some customers reported that data recovery software may be able recover data from the affected devices. We are currently investigating their effectiveness. But why did these deletions of "My Books" occur in the first instance? Obipale, a Slashdot reader, shares the first clue from Engadget’s Friday report Western Digital's statement provided much more detail
