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Hard Drive help
hiya i just bought a 120gig Western Digital Hard drive it was suppose to be brand new i plugged it into my computer and the first time it found it and was installing drivers i guess but then it wasn't listed in my computer but it was in the hardware profile so i restared and it started making these clicking sounds and now it is not found at all. The only thing i did was change the jumper settings to cs and then when it started clicking i tried it alone on master and together with my other drive on slave that couldn't screw it up could it? does anyone know what could be wrong with it? do i have to format it somehow when u first get it?
any help would be very appeciated.
and also does anyone know what head parking does or what its for?
thanx
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TRy the drive on its own...as Master...
Does the bios autodetect it??
If it still doesnt work...and is making "clicking" sounds...take it back to where you bought it and get a new one.
On the harddrive there should be a manufacturer date....
Yes you have to format the drive...and depending on the OS...you can to use disk manager to add it, partition it, format it etc
MLF
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tried it as a master on its own and still doesn't work makes those clicking sounds no it isn't detected anymore
the first time i put it in it was detected then went into windows and installed it but wasn;t showing up in the my computer so i restarted and then thats when the clicking started and now won't detect it any way i try
the date on it is aug 2004 so then it must be defective? is there any way to fix it cuz i won't be able to get to that store till next week and figures my main drive is dying so now i am screwed. Trust my luck to get the defective one LOL but if it did detect it the first time how could it just stop. i didn't do anything to it at all
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You could contact WD directly for the manufacturers warranty...which is usually a year.
They may send you one right away.
Harddrives fail all the time......
Thats what backups are for.
MLF
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ah yeah i think i will do that see what they say