Where to buy Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Blue PATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD5000AAKB
Band : Western Digital
Model : WD5000AAKBSP
Product Features :
- Ships in Certified Frustration Free Packaging
- Speed 7200 RPM
- Capacity 500 GB
- 500 GB capacity holds up to 100 000 digital photos 125 000 MP3 files and 60 hours of HD video
>> Dreadful Packaging
Drive arrived at the bottom of a large box with a few air packets on top of it Absolutely nothing to stop the drive bouncing around the large box during its journey
>> HDD
good delivery and the Hard Drive is working well
well done
thank you
Chris
>> Excellent replacement drive but difficult setup
Now that I have gotten through the setup process the drive is excellent and somewhat faster than the previous boot drive and does not change system noise level
The setup difficulties were because the usual standalone utilities would not recognize the drive Both WD utilities and Windows 98 boot disk to run FDisk failed until the drive was formatted under W2K I was then doing an image copy of the old C drive boot partition to the drive I learned the hard way that from W2K on Windows stores the drive letter of the page file in the registry and the drive letter in the MBR Master Boot Record of the disk
The only way to make this the C drive to match the registry was to format the partition under W2K using next available letter then do the stand alone image copy from the old C drive then make the new drive the only hard drive in the machine and run standalone FDisk MBR to build a new MBR with the C drive letter
If you are just adding a second drive you will not have these problems Just connect it as the slave and be sure the original drive is set as Master see jumpers on back of drive boot your operating system right click My Computer choose Manage go to Disk Management and partition and format the drive as you want
