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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 3
... supports Cable Select, there is the default setting for reference. Install the Hard Drive
Important: Your new WD hard drive must use the Master setting. 3. then connect the Master drive to the black connector of the IDE interface cable and the Slave drive to step 3.
2. For proper grounding, use screws in IDE/ATA controller. Replace and secure the system cover. Set the Jumpers...
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 5
...an alternate jumper setting to specific hard drive capacities that your system BIOS supports your hard drive will allow proper functionality.
32 GB Barrier Some BIOSs released before contacting WD Technical Support. Operating System
May exhibit the following the installation instructions you experience difficulties, read this guide.
2. Recommended Solution: Obtain a BIOS upgrade from the...
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 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 17
... use. Your Western Digital hard drive is jumpered as Slave, you must change the setting to install the operating system. DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS V11.0 - 13 c) If an operating system has already been installed, restart the system.
10. Since the drive has been previously set up using Data Lifeguard Tools, you that there is an existing partition on -screen instructions to Master...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 19
... the largest capacity up your new hard drive. If the drive contains existing partitions and you wish to create or add partitions, you must first click Delete to 137 GB based on the hard drive. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
5. Select Installation Type as Add the drive as an additional device. Your hard drive is now ready to set up to remove existing partitions...
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 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
... to 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...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 27
... of the hard drive with these jumper settings. Windows 98SE (Second Edition)
TROUBLESHOOTING - 23 Visit our product support Web site at support.wdc.com for the latest version. To run Data Lifeguard Tools: - Windows Me ! Use the Data Lifeguard Tools software to determine if your system BIOS or purchase a controller card. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
2. It is...
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
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If you have the latest BIOS update installed for them.
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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...
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