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i took it to the pca lan and found it had problems -
here is what i was informed by western digital yesterday and its working now !

1ST- i had to run a low level format on it ! -zero the whole drive !
2ND - was told not to use anything but the formating software that came with this except to low level format it ! and the rest of the software on the factory supply disk has know bugs with windows xp and dont use them ! per a tech support call!
3RD - use windows xp to formate the drive !
4 th - i couldnt use there tranfer software becouse it wouldnt work to image a drive in windows xp !
so if i had norton ghost or any other 3 rd party imaging software id be fine !!!
be nice if they would add a insert in there paperwork to warn ya of these problems with with there hard drive
i was ready to return it to best buy but i got a fool on the phone and i had it longer then 14 days !
and to rma it would of taken i bet a month .
so i desided to call there tech center !

Well at least it worked..

I was sitting there for along time trying to fix it and make it work lol.

I've never used the software included with drives to partition or format. It's always been FDISK or Win2k/WinXP setup for me.

Bought a Retail drive.. So I've never gotten any of that software. eGo

Originally posted by Busby
I've never used the software included with drives to partition or format. It's always been FDISK or Win2k/WinXP setup for me.

Ditto. FDISK or Partition Magic 7 for me.

i just use WinXP and never had a problem like that and own 2 WD SE drives...

Had to be BIOS related. I've installed a WD 160Gb drive (also an SE edition) on an XP system with no problem.

Other than the POS drive failed after 1 month

By the way, both I and Huntress screwed around with this dive at the Lan, FDISk(the only thing i use) didnt want anything to do with it as well, when you would go to view the partition info, fdisk would lock up.