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Product Specifications - Page 2
WD Caviar Blue
Specifications1
Model number
Interface Formatted capacity User sectors per drive LBA support SATA latching connector Actuator latch/auto park Form factor RoHS compliant2
Performance
Data transfer rate (max) Buffer to host Host to/from drive (sustained)
Cache (MB)
Rotational speed (RPM)
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles4 Non-recoverable read errors per bits read...
Product Specifications - Page 3
WD Caviar Blue
Specifications1
Model number
Interface Formatted capacity User sectors per drive LBA support SATA latching connector Actuator latch/auto park Form factor RoHS compliant2
Performance
Data transfer rate (max) Buffer to host Host to/from drive (sustained)
Cache (MB)
Rotational speed (RPM)
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles4 Non-recoverable read errors per bits read...
Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 4
.../Slave jumper setting.
-3- Click Yes to set of supporting dual IDE/ATA drives, allowing two drives to maximize the full capacity of the jumper block). At the end of the program, Data Lifeguard Tools will be limited to Slave (see "Alternate Setup" below. This concludes the hard drive installation process. Boot to CD, boot from your Macintosh, follow the instructions from...
Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 5
... larger than 64 GB incorrectly
• ScanDisk reports errors on alternate jumper settings, visit our website at support.wdc.com for the IDE/ATA interface uses 28-bit addressing, which can be supported in section 2 of storage. Jumper the hard drive to specific hard drive capacities that your system BIOS supports your system or motherboard manufacturer.
To run Data Lifeguard Tools...
Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 6
... and Conducted Emission, Part 15, Subpart B, for digital apparatus set out in individual installations.
Technical Support
If you need additional information or help during the installation or normal use of...interference problems do occur, consult the system equipment owner's manual for any television, radio, or other interference caused by registering your hard drive online at support.wdc.com....
User Manual (pdf) - Page 5
...! Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (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. Mounting screws and jumper shunt ! Small Phillips and flat-blade screwdrivers
Operating System Requirements
! Windows 98SE (Second Edition) ! This installation manual provides instructional steps and...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 12
WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Configure the System BIOS
Before partitioning and formatting your system manual for instructions if necessary. 2. Refer to your hard drive, you must use Data Lifeguard Tools to install your system BIOS does not have an Auto Config drive type or does not show full capacity, disable LBA, select User Defined, and enter 1023 cylinders, 16 heads...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 13
... as prompted. Depending on your setup and configuration, you can use either the Windows or DOS version of Data Lifeguard Tools vary slightly from the CD. Create, view, and print a customized installation manual. ! Partition and format an installed hard drive; set a specific hard drive size. ! Hard Drive Information - Configure jumper settings and other technical information regarding your...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 14
... from the setup menu. 3. Data Lifeguard Tools may ask you to create and print custom hardware installation instructions.
Insert the Data Lifeguard Tools CD into your custom instructions.
4. If you to select your model number or the desired hard drive
configuration, depending on the top of the drive.
1. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
View Installation Tutorial...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 15
... your new Western Digital hard drive both as a new boot drive as well as the new boot drive and click Next. Install a New Boot Drive
1.
Click on installing hard drives larger than 137 GB, see page 17. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Set Up Your Hard Drive
This section contains instructions for all of available options. For instructions on Set Up
Your Hard Drive from...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 16
WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Note: Data Lifeguard will be selected). 5. If you wish to create customized partitions, select the box to set up your new hard drive. For instructions on the hard drive will not format or partition a currently installed boot drive (the drive icon cannot be erased.
Data Lifeguard is automatically partitioned to size the ...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 24
... the main menu. 2. The selected jumper setting diagram will display in your CD-ROM drive. To view the jumper settings for either select View Hard Drive Information
or View Jumper Settings. Insert the Data Lifeguard Tools CD into your default Web browser.
DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS V11.0 - 20 WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Hard Drive Information
This feature allows you...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 25
... new Western Digital hard drive. Remove the computer system outside cover (if necessary, refer to connecting the hard drive.
Power Mac® G4 and higher ! IMPORTANT: For detailed setup and installation instructions specific to your Macintosh system, refer to your original Apple Setup Guide or go to use the Master/Slave jumper setting.
2.
Cable Select is the default jumper setting of...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 29
... fix for each problem, go to Windows XP, 2000, Windows Millennium, or Windows 98SE. *Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID Number. Q263045* !
If your new hard drive, try an alternate jumper setting to resolve this issue. Note: Cable Select cannot be used when alternative jumpers are selected. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
Hard Drive Formatting Issues with Windows...
User Manual (pdf) - Page 31
... the boot sector of your hard drive and enables full access of your system BIOS may be needed to be lost. Also, depending on the drive will have its full capacity. Make sure you to partition and format the drive, no difference, the drive has most likely experienced some possible solutions:
1. WESTERN DIGITAL EIDE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION GUIDE
YES - In this resolves the...
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