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Question posted by cwebb80701 on May 25th, 2012

Would Like To Set This Wd2500aajb As A Usb Slave Drive

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Product Specifications - Page 1

... the drive cool enhances reliability. INTERFACES SATA 3 Gb/s and PATA MODEL NUMBERS WD10EALS WD6400AAKS WD5000AAKS WD5000AAKB WD3200AAKS WD3200AAJS WD3200AAJB WD2500AAKS WD2500AAJS WD2500AAJB WIDTH/HEIGHT...the importance of human hearing. WD Caviar® Blue™ Desktop Hard Drives With SATA and PATA interfaces, and cache sizes ranging from 80 GB to levels near the threshold of ...

Product Specifications - Page 3

..., max) Width (in./mm, ± .01 in.) Weight (lb./kg, ± 10%) 250 GB WD2500AAKS WD2500AAJS SATA 3 Gb/s 250,059 MB 488,397,168 Yes Yes Yes 3.5-inch Yes 250 GB WD2500AAJB PATA 100 MB/s 250,059 MB 488,397,168 Yes No Yes 3.5-inch Yes 3 Gb/s 126 MB/s 16 (WD2500AAKS) 8 (WD2500AAJS) 7200 100 MB/s3 126 MB/s 8 7200...

Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 2

... not drop, shake, or knock down the hard drive. • Do not stack hard drives or stand your WD hard drive on -screen instructions to set up your hard drive greater than 137 GB. Operating System Information Installing Your New WD Hard Drive as an Upgrade From a Previously Installed Hard Drive To ensure the optimal settings for your drive, visit our website at support.wdc.com...

Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 3

... you are uncertain, use screws in IDE/ATA controller. If your new WD hard drive as the only device on the motherboard. Standard Jumper Settings (Master/Slave or Single Configuration) 1. Connect the blue end of the IDE interface cable and the Slave drive to the illustration on the cable with the four mounting screws provided (two...

Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 4

... your Apple Setup Guide. This concludes the hard drive installation process. To install a hard drive smaller than 137 GB, you will need to use the Windows version (Figure 5) or boot your system does not support the Master/Slave configuration, you must use the Master/Slave jumper setting. -3- Set Up the Hard Drive To assist with your card to make sure that...

Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 5

... be incompatible with two IDE devices, use this setting. 10-pin connector Dual (Slave) If the drive you are related to specific hard drive capacities that your system BIOS supports your hard drive will allow proper functionality. 32 GB Barrier Some BIOSs released before June 1999 stall with drives larger than 32 GB. Interim Solution: 1. Follow the setup instructions for...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 3

... 5 Master/Slave Configuration 5 Connect the Hard Drive 6 Power on Your Computer 7 Configure the System BIOS 8 9 Data Lifeguard Tools v11.0 Create a Bootable Diskette 9 View Installation Tutorial 10 Set Up Your Hard Drive 11 Install a New Boot Drive 11 Install an Additional Storage Drive 14 Install a Drive Larger than 137 GB 17 Drive-to-Drive Copy Utility 19 Hard Drive Information 20...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 8

... the Master/Slave or Single configuration. If you are detected by the system. If your drive configuration, we recommend you choose. See page 5 for Western Digital hard drives is Cable Select. The default jumper setting for the jumper block diagram. Set the Jumpers Jumper settings are installing your new Western Digital hard drive with an existing IDE drive on the...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 9

... installing your new Western Digital hard drive as Slave (secondary device). CSEL INSTALL THE HARD DRIVE - 5 Single Configuration Single - Slave - If you are installing your new Western Digital hard drive along with a non-Western Digital hard drive, obtain jumper setting information from the original hard drive manufacturer. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE Standard Jumper...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 10

Connect the IDE Interface Cable to the drive. then connect the Master drive to the black connector of the IDE interface cable and the Slave drive to ensure proper insertion. Pin 1 Motherboard Interface cable from hard drive 3. The pin connector is keyed to the gray connector. 2. Connect the Power Supply Cable: Attach the computer system power supply...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 11

... adjacent to "Data Lifeguard Tools v11.0" on Your Computer 1. This concludes the hard drive installation process. 2. If the drive was detected, you will have to enter the system BIOS to set up the hard drive. b) To format and partition the drive, skip to the floppy disk drive) using the four mounting screws provided. a) To configure the system BIOS...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 13

...the 137 GB, 32 GB, or 8.4 GB system BIOS limitations. ! Register Online - Insert the Data Lifeguard Tools CD into your hard drive. ! Follow the directions as prompted. Drive-to use...Bootable Diskette If your drive online (Internet connection required). When the setup menu appears, select Create a Data Lifeguard Bootable Installation Diskette. set a specific hard drive size. ! DATA...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 15

... computer and boot from the setup menu. 3. Click on Set Up Your Hard Drive from the list of your 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. a) If using the Windows version, the...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 18

... from the list of your desktop. 2. a) If using the Windows version, the CD autoruns on Set Up Your Hard Drive from the CD. Click on your system devices. 4. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE Install an Additional Storage Drive 1. Select Run Data Lifeguard Installation Software from the setup menu. 3. Data Lifeguard will take several moments...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 21

... scan for all of a drive larger than 137 GB. Choose the steps according to connecting the hard drive. Caution: Formatting a drive past the 137 GB barrier on Set Up Your Hard Drive from the CD. Make sure... on a system that its drivers have been properly installed prior to your hard drive greater than 137 GB: ! Windows XP and Windows 2000 1. Select Run Data Lifeguard Installation Software...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 24

...either select View Hard Drive Information or View Jumper Settings. The selected jumper setting diagram will display in your drive, select the drive model number and configuration, then click View Jumper Settings. Select Hard Drive Information from the main menu. 2. DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS V11.0 - 20 a) View Hard Drive Information - Once your CD-ROM drive. b) View Jumper Settings - In the...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 25

....com. Use the Apple Disk Utility to certain configurations) ! For more information on Master/Slave support on the Macintosh operating system CD. 7. Install the Hard Drive Less than 137 GB as Master (Master ID=0, Slave ID=1). The utility is the default jumper setting of the jumper block). DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS V11.0 - 21 Power Mac® G4...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 27

... information. Other options are to determine if your system BIOS supports 8.4 GB or larger hard drives. Windows Me ! It is an 8.4 GB hard drive limitation on some traditional system BIOSs. We recommend using the latest software to access the full capacity of the hard drive with these jumper settings. The following operating systems recognize extended BIOS functions. ! Follow the...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 30

... appropriate to the power supply with the hard drive connected. What is configured differently, but the system BIOS cannot recognize the hard drive. Leave the power cable attached. 2. if so, simply enter 0 for the drive parameters. 3. First, the drive itself could include a faulty data cable, data corruption, incorrect BIOS settings, or in some cases, a virus infection. Each...

User Manual (pdf) - Page 31

... and the formatting utility FORMAT will be reported in binary gigabytes where 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. FDISK reports a drive's capacity in the BIOS does not detect a drive. For example, a Western Digital 200 GB hard drive's capacity will incorrectly show the capacity of the hard drive and use the higher transfer rates. 3. Make sure you to obtain an...