20 Most Recent Western Digital WD Scorpio Blue WD2500BEVT - hard drive - 50 GB - SATA-300 SATA II Questions & Answers

Open Control Panel ' select System ' select system devices ' look for yellow triangle on unknown device or under storage device / hard drives. Select detect / add new device with drive connected.

SATA drives require no jumper settings

SATA drive position is determined by the plug on the motherboard, not a jumper. Jumper settings are for PATA drives (much older).

The machine you're trying to use the disk in, is there another disk installed?

IS WINDOWS ON THE DRIVE THEN IT'S NOT POSSIBLE.

Check if your hard drive is still in warranty period so you could ask for replacement from the manufacturer. Otherwise, simply buy a new hard drive and move all your data from the old one to the new drive. SMART always predicts correct hard drive status and probably this time, you need to change it ASAP.Hope it helps!!

Note: If you cannot find drivers for your WD drive, it may be because most WD drives do not include drivers as they use a standard driver built into the OS. If the driver is built into the OS or is already installed and the OS continues to look for a driver, your drive has most likely failed or been damaged and needs to be replaced.

According to Western Digital: "Most current WD drives do not require additional drivers on the Windows or Mac OSX Operating System (OS) beyond the ones that are included with the OS."

In order to simplify the installation process WD elected to use the standard drivers that are built into common operating systems. While there are a few exceptions to this, in general, there are no drivers provided by WD for our drives. That's because the drivers a WD hard drive or SSD uses are part of your Operating System. As such, any trouble with these drivers should be handled by the regular line of support for your operating system - in most cases by contacting your system manufacturer, IT department, or the publisher of your OS.

Internal Hard Drives and SSD: All internal Hard Drives and SSDs use drivers that are built into the operating system. There are no drivers available for download because of this. If your internal drive is not recognized, it can be caused by one of the following problems:

1. During an operating system installation, it may not see your drive at all or may request a driver. Under Windows you will need to press F6 in order to be prompted to enter a driver. Once you are prompted for a driver you will need to remove your Windows CD, and place a CD with the drivers for your SATA or EIDE controller card. These can be obtained from your System Manufacturer (Dell, HP, Toshiba, Gateway, etc.) your motherboard manufacturer, SATA or EIDE card manufacturer (if it is connected to a PCI or PCIe slot). Western Digital cannot assist you in locating these drivers, as every controller card requires a different driver.
2. Your driver may be corrupted. The symptoms of this problem can vary - if it is your boot disk, your operating system may fail to load. If it is a secondary drive it may request a driver. You will need to contact Microsoft or your System Manufacturer for assistance in resolving this issue.
3. Your drive may be damaged or have failed. A good test for this is to try the drive in another system. If the issue continues to occur, then this is most likely the case.

Good day!!..As far us i know that cloning or ghosting should be the same specs of hard disk..Since you want to cloned the 58gb,so you should be use 58gb also and not 250 gb,thats why bios detecting some different utilities..ok thanks..

You will have to be the computer administrator to change any values or gain access on any hard drive

click start control panel user accounts you should see a box with the administrator and the guest account if you have made one click on the administrator this may vary depending on which operating system you have

click start click to open on my computer you should see your hard drive usually C: right click select properties there will be an array of options select the security tab option then advanced make sure you have full control in windows 7

click start control panel user accounts click on the administrators account if you have made one or you will have to create one in windows XP

USB drives can be write-protected by modifying the StoreageDevicePolicies Registry key and WriteProtect Registry value. click Start>run>regedit to open Registry Editor. and press control+F to open the find dialogue box and type "usb device" or "driverdesc" to open usb mass storage device or type "usb mass storage device" in the search windows. And right click on it and delete. This will set the policy value to 0. then insert your usb device. It will work fine. # Remember: do not delete any unknow files in the registry as this will make some programes not work as usual. alsoIf you are running a Windows XP OS then you might be able to: - click start right click on my computer select open- Right click the icon of your Flash Drive (It should be F:/ or something) - Click Properties in the menu that comes up - Click the Sharing tab - Click permissions - And finally, click Allow next to Full Control. hope this helps

No you will need to create a slipstream disk so that you can load drivers for your cd/dvd as well as your hard drive if its sata. The problem is most new laptops have sata drives there for the drivers to run these drives are not present before trying to restore. If you have a restore disk or windows cd research slipstreaming windows. By the way this is more or less Dependant upon your drive being sata. Firstly I would check the warrant situation why ask for hard ache if you dont have to.

The hard drive has the "tick of death". If you did not have back ups of the data and it is very very important you will have to send it out to a data recovery specialist. Other than that the HD is dead and you should buy a new one. Good Luck!

here you go:

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?modelno=WD2500BEVT&x=10&y=14

good luck

AB

the beeps are post during post the very first work is done by the ram,all the memory in the ram is first transferred to the hard disk,and remains active untill turned off. make sure that your RAM is securely seated try replacing all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA the ones that attach from your ((motherboard to hard drive)) make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they are probably old and faulty ? hope this helps

You need to obtain the SATA drivers for the Hard drive for your motherboard and save them to a bootable media such as a floppy drive or a USB stick if the mobo supports this.
When you install windows (must be XP you are using as Vista and 7 normally have the sata drivers installed), at the prompt press F6 to install 3rd part drivers and it will look for the drivers, after that you should have no problems.

If this does not work, you may have issues with the hard drive, I would check to see if it is shown in the Bios, if not, check it is properly connected, if that does not wrok, the drive could be faulty

This problem was posted under a heading for an internal hard drive. If this is what you have and dropped, your drive may be a goner. Hard drives don't take kindly to being dropped. They're a mechanical device with close tolerances, and enough of a shock can damage them so they no longer spin or read. Shock can also crack the circuit board or break components loose so the drive stops working electronically even if it's mechanically okay.

On the other hand, if this is an external drive in a case, there may be hope. The drive itself may still be bad, but you might simply have knocked an internal connection loose. In external drives, there is an interface board containing some power circuitry, the external power jack if one is used, and connectors which plug into the drive inside. The board may have been damaged or the connections knocked loose, while the drive survived. The only way to know for sure is to open the case and remove the drive, then connect it into another computer for testing. On some cases this is fairly easy, while on others it's like breaking into a bank vault. You can find disassembly instructions for most brands and models on the Internet.

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you need a power adapter of output 12v =2A 5V = 2A to connect to the hardisk to give the power. this available in the market. do give feedback

You can get a hard drive enclosure for a few bucks to use the drive as a external drive. All the files are there that way.

You're in trouble. The drive has failed, time for a new one.