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Hey everyone, I just got a Western Digital Caviar Black series 500 GB SATA II Hard drive, and put it into my computer as a slave drive. I have the RC and all drivers are installed correctly. The drive shows up in the bios, and in device manager, but when I go to computer, it does not show up...

Hey everyone, I just got a Western Digital Caviar Black series 500 GB SATA II Hard drive, and put it into my computer as a slave drive. I have the RC and all drivers are installed correctly. The drive shows up in the bios, and in device manager, but when I go to computer, it does not show up...

hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...

I'm using the release candidate and whenever I plug in my Western Digital Passport USB external hard drive, I get nothing. It doesn't show up in device manager or in My Computer. The light on the harddrive comes on and the drive spins up, so I know it's working. Windows just won't recognize it...

I'm using the release candidate and whenever I plug in my Western Digital Passport USB external hard drive, I get nothing. It doesn't show up in device manager or in My Computer. The light on the harddrive comes on and the drive spins up, so I know it's working. Windows just won't recognize...

When upgrading from 7048 to 7077 the installer freezes on the last step (copying files and settings) at 35% every time I've tried it. It suggested removing ATI Catalyst Install Manager and Control Panel, which I did, but it still hangs (although this time at 47%). I have tried several different...

Hi, I just installed Windows 7 build 7068. 64bit. I have an Asus P5WD2E-Premium mobo, and 5 Western Digital Hard drives of various sizes, all SATA. Windows recognizes only 2 of the drives, the c drive of course, and only 1 of two WD 400gig hds, which are identical. I know this may be a mobo...

Hi All, I have installed Windows 7 build 7057 on my desktop.There is an problem with my external hard disk(Western Digital 160GB). Before the drive was formatted and partitioned in to 4 parts and I am having data on all drives.On WIndows 7 I am able to see the first partition . Through disk...

I have three USB drives but windows 7 Ultimate build 7068 does not see the 750MB WD essential edition external usb drive. System says its not accecabile. The other 2 drives are fine. (1 WD Essentail Edition 500G and 1 WD Home edition 500GB). The 750G drive does appear in disk manager but I...

Hi Chaps, I have just upgraded from vista ultimate to Win7 and all seems well accept that my Western Digital Net drive doesn't show in the network window. I can map it using the ip address but otherwise no show :mad: Can any shine a little light on what might be the problem please. :D...

This has just started in the last 2 days. Till then it ran great. I have the following hardware: MSI p45 neo 3 motherboard E8500 3.16 ghz wolfdale proc 4gb corsair xms2 6400(800mhz) 74gb western digital raptor visiontek radeon 4850 vid card I have xp as my boot on the main disk and windows 7...

I just got a western digital 1tb esata/usb external hdd. i tried it in vista and it works perfectly. booted into 7 and its not recognized at all. any ideas how to fix this? Thanks

i have two western digital black 320gb 7200rpm 16mb cache hard drives in my Dell Studio 1737 laptop with a Core 2 Duo 2.5gh 6mb cache. When installing Vista it seems my two hard drives correctly. It sees the hdd1 as Hard Drive 0 and HDD 2 has Hard Drive 1. However if I delete all partations...

I just bought a new Western Digital VelociRaptor 74 gb hard drive. I have an Asus A8V deluxe mobo. I was able to install Windows 7 32 bit fine using one of the promise 378 driver that I have but, when I tried to instal the 64 bit version I could not find any driver that worked for the promise...

downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer shop...

I downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer...

I have a 250GB SATA 3GB/s Western Digital HD with 2 partitions, one of 30GB for 7 and the rest for my XP install. I have used HD tune to verify data transfer rates in the mid 75MB/s area at all times and yet, on the experience rating in Windows 7, it lists the HD experience as a lowly 2. Is...

Hey guys, I'm new here so please don't be mean if this comes off stupid! I have made a new partition on my External Hard Drive. I went into the install, and I get this message when doing a clean install and choosing the partition: Is there any way to make it work at all? If it helps, the...

hi everyone, i really need your help. i have an external harddrive, and i believe it is a western digital (i don't know how to check its model since it is closed in a case) 250GB hard drive. i have windows vista ultimate 32-bit edition with all of the latest updates installed. the hard...

Hi First of all, apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but i need help from somebody. I recently bought a new laptop that uses vista, i want to use my western digital external hard drive with it but it doesn't recognise it all the time. I have used the external drive on my old laptop...