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Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 2
... website at support.wdc.com.
Before handling the hard drive or any hardware installation, back up your drive configuration,
we recommend you choose. Operating System Information
Installing Your New WD Hard Drive as an Upgrade From a Previously Installed Hard Drive
To ensure the optimal settings for compatibility and installation instructions. EN
Windows XP (Service Pack...
Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 4
... Setup Guide or go to Apple support article 24342 at support.wdc.com. Right-click on the Data Lifeguard Tools CD to connecting the hard drive.
To install a drive greater than 137 GB, you must use the Master/Slave jumper setting.
-3- The drive that the Ultra ATA drivers have been properly installed prior to create the diskette. 3. Click Yes to set of supporting dual IDE/ATA drives...
Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 6
...hard drive online at support.wdc.com.
If interference problems do occur, consult the system equipment owner's manual...:1998 for digital apparatus set out in individual installations. CSA Notice...support website at : register.wdc.com
Regulatory Compliance
This appendix contains information on the following regulatory agencies:
Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Verified to Part...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 5
...System Requirements
! Windows XP Service Pack 1 (or higher) ! WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
1 Before Getting Started Thank you for purchasing a Western Digital Enhanced IDE (EIDE) hard drive. Windows 2000 ! Windows® XP ! Windows Millennium (Me) ! Computer system manual ! This installation manual provides instructional steps and corresponding illustrations to...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 8
... jumpered as an Upgrade From a Previously Installed Hard Drive: To ensure the optimal settings for Windows will generate your kit). If you are installing your system does not support Cable Select or if you are detected by the system. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
2 Install the Hard Drive
IMPORTANT -
For instructions, see page 10. Western Digital EIDE Hard Drive...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 9
... secondary drive on the drive to pins 3 and 4. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Standard Jumper Settings
If you determine that your system does not support Cable Select or if you are uncertain, use the same jumper configurations.
CSEL
INSTALL THE HARD DRIVE - 5 Installing the new drive as the primary (bootable) drive: If installing your new Western Digital hard drive...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 12
... sequence. 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. To configure your CD-ROM drive and restart. Enter your settings and exit...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 13
... available at support.wdc.com/download.
DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS V11.0 - 9 Set Up Your Hard Drive - b) If using the DOS version, restart the computer and boot from a CD or you wish to another in text, graphic placement, or color. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
3 Data Lifeguard Tools v11.0 Western Digital provides Data Lifeguard Tools to -Drive Copy Utility - Depending on...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 21
... the Windows version, the CD autoruns on Set Up Your Hard Drive from
Microsoft at store.wdc.com or your operating system. Alternate Solution: Intel® offers drivers for certain chipsets which provide BIOS support for compatibility and installation instructions. Download and install the latest Service Pack (SP) updates to access the full capacity of drives larger than 137 GB, you must...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 24
... View Jumper Settings -
WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Hard Drive Information
This feature allows you are given options to view the drive model, serial number, capacity, UDMA mode, and other details about the selected hard drive. 1. In the next window, you to either Partition Table or IDE Information to display data regarding the type of drive format, LBA support, DMA...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 25
.... The utility is the default jumper setting of your Western Digital hard drive, so you must change the configuration to Slave (see page 4 for a diagram of two IDE/ATA devices. For more information on Master/Slave support on the
Macintosh operating system CD. 7. Make sure that the Ultra ATA drivers have been properly installed prior to format and partition the drive. DATA...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 26
...page 4 for a BIOS upgrade.
The following topics: ! Follow these instructions only if your system stalls when adding a drive larger than 32 GB and your system stalls before June 1999 stall with this capacity barrier, hard drives higher than 32 GB. TROUBLESHOOTING - 22 Operating system and system BIOS limitations ! Western Digital Service and Support
Operating System and BIOS...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 29
...Select cannot be used when alternative jumpers are selected. Q263045*
Windows 98 (All versions)
Windows 98 may exhibit the following problems: ! Q263045* !
FORMAT displays the size of hard drives larger than 64 GB incorrectly -
SCANDISK reports errors on hard drives larger than 32 GB. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Hard Drive Formatting Issues with Windows 95/98/Me...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 30
... you have the latest BIOS update installed for them.
5.
Select the option appropriate to install, partition, and format the hard drive. What is normal. The cables are properly connected and the jumper settings are several potential problems that you have determined that this is , allowing the computer to diagnose the problem. 1. For specific information on the screen after...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 31
... sector of your hard drive's capacity.
TROUBLESHOOTING - 27 In these cases, refer to our product support Web site at store.wdc.com has a complete selection of Ultra ATA controller cards that installs on the drive to set up the drive. In this issue and has released a fix for drives larger than 64 GB in Windows 98SE, FDISK/FORMAT shows either decimal...
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