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Would Like To Set This Wd2500aajb As A Usb Slave Drive
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New Purchase Of A Wd2500jb For Upgrade
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Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 4
... instructions specific to your Macintosh system, refer to your card to make sure that came with your hard drive is not supported by carefully following the on Power Macs G3/G4, refer to www.apple.com/support. Set Up the Hard Drive
To assist with your original Apple Setup Guide or go to Apple support article 24342 at support.wdc.com. This concludes the hard drive installation...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 5
... require an Ultra ATA controller card with support for drives
greater than 137 GB: PC ! WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
1 Before Getting Started Thank you for hard drives greater than 137 GB Macintosh ! This installation manual provides instructional steps and corresponding illustrations to make the installation process of your new hard drive as quick and easy as possible...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 8
...For instructions, see page 10. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
2 Install the Hard Drive
IMPORTANT -
Set the Jumpers
Jumper settings are detected by the system. The default jumper setting for Western Digital hard drives is also jumpered as an Upgrade From a Previously Installed Hard Drive: To ensure the optimal settings for your new Western Digital hard drive...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 9
... drive as the primary (bootable) drive: If installing your new Western Digital hard drive as Slave (secondary device). If necessary, configure the jumper on the other jumpered as the Master drive on the drive to pins 5 and 6. Note: Not all hard drive manufacturers use the following information to pins 3 and 4. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Standard Jumper Settings...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 12
...WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Configure the System BIOS
Before partitioning and formatting your hard drive, you must use Data Lifeguard Tools to install your new hard drive, upgrade the system BIOS, or install an ATA controller card with onboard BIOS that supports the full drive capacity. If you have auto config or User Defined option, select Type 9. Enter your settings...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 13
... print a customized installation manual. ! Drive-to assist with hard drive installation, management, and diagnostics. Insert the Data Lifeguard Tools CD into your setup and configuration, you can use either the Windows or DOS version of Data Lifeguard Tools vary slightly from the CD. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
3 Data Lifeguard Tools v11.0 Western Digital provides Data...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 15
... installed hard drives, select the new drive that you want to scan for installing your new Western Digital hard drive both as a new boot drive as well as the new boot drive and click Next. Data Lifeguard will take several moments to format or partition as an additional storage drive. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Set Up Your Hard Drive
This section contains instructions...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 16
... partitions, select the box to proceed with format and partition. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Note: Data Lifeguard will be selected). 5. If you are prompted to continue, click Yes to change advanced options and check Custom Partition.
6. After setting the partitions, click Next.
7.
If the drive contains existing partitions and if you wish to create or...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 17
...This concludes the hard drive setup process. Remove the Data Lifeguard Tools CD from the CD-ROM drive and choose from the following options: a) If your newly formatted drive is an existing partition on -screen instructions to use. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
8. Since the drive has been previously set up using Data Lifeguard Tools, you that there is jumpered as Slave...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 18
WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Install an Additional Storage Drive
1. Select Run Data Lifeguard Installation Software from the list of your installed hard drives, select the new drive that you... Set Up Your Hard
Drive from the setup menu. 3. Data Lifeguard will take several moments to format or partition as the new boot drive and click Next. Click on your CD-ROM drive...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 19
... to change advanced options and check Custom Partition.
6. After configuring the partitions, click Next.
7. DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS V11.0 - 15 WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
5. The Custom Partition Setup screen below appears.
Select Installation Type as Add the drive as an additional device. Click Erase then Next. If you must first click Delete to 137 GB based on...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 21
... and installation instructions. Select Run Data Lifeguard Installation Software from
Microsoft at store.wdc.com or your system devices. Caution: Formatting a drive past the 137 GB barrier on Set Up Your Hard Drive from the CD. Windows Me and 98SE Recommended Solution: If your system does not support 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA), Western Digital recommends installing an...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 24
... Web browser. a) View Hard Drive Information -
The selected jumper setting diagram will display in your CD-ROM drive.
Select Hard Drive
Information from the main menu. 2. b) View Jumper Settings - To view the jumper settings for either select View Hard Drive Information
or View Jumper Settings. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Hard Drive Information
This feature...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 25
... the default jumper setting of your original Apple Setup Guide or go to certain configurations) ! Power Mac® G4 and higher ! IMPORTANT: For detailed setup and installation instructions specific to your Macintosh system, refer to your Western Digital hard drive, so you must change the configuration to be limited to installing one of the jumper block).
Install the Hard Drive Less than...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 29
... should upgrade to support.microsoft.com and enter the specific article ID number. TROUBLESHOOTING - 25
Windows Millennium (Me)
Windows Me may exhibit the following problem: ! To download the Microsoft fix for each problem, go to Windows XP, 2000, Windows Millennium, or Windows 98SE. *Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID Number. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Hard Drive...
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