For Seagate and Western Digital 160 Gb SATA 7200 rpm hard drive for notebook use, which one is better and which one have longer warranty and live longer?

Guys this one stumped me for some time, here is my solution that worked like a dream

1. plug the hard drive you are using into a pc and check the hard drive is recognise and works.
2. Delete all partitions
3. ensure it has a 8 bit cache buffer!! This is the most important one. That means the system only supports older hard drives. I got 2 second hand ones from the local pc store for $50. See the list of hard drives that are know to work below.

MANUFACTURER MODEL CAPACITY ROTATION
ST3320613AS 320GB 7200 rpm
ST33500320AS 500GB 7200 rpm
ST3750330AS 750GB 7200 rpm
Seagate
ST31000340AS 1000GB 7200 rpm
WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 rpm
WD5000AACS 500GB 7200 rpm
WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 rpm
WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 rpm
WD10EADS 1TB 7200 rpm
WD15EADS 1.5TB 7200 rpm
WD
WD20EADS 2TB 7200 rpm
Maxtor STM3500320AS 500GB 7200 rpm
STM3750330AS 750GB 7200 rpm
HITACHI HDT725032VLA360 320GB 7200 rpm
HDS721010KLA330 1000GB 7200 rpm

FYI for some reason the person I bought this off online "Ebay" had no idea how to support and I could not get support from their web site as they email they give just bounces back.

Cheers.

Hello gunsun,

May i know what your problem is?

It is a better job to extend the partition with 3rd party partition software, you do no to do much effort and then you could achieve the goal, and there are several free partition software that could achieve this goal without data loss like AOMEI Partition Assistant, Gparted live CD and so on, i prefer Aomei, it is much friendly than Gparted and the Diskpart commond.

Sounds like the drive has croaked. You can get the data but expect to spend upwards of $1000 or more to a data recovery company.

you can replace it with any IDE drive.
if you have a SATA port on your motherboard you can use any SATA hard drive which is faster than IDE.

Hi Good day!! try to re-plug the sata cable and power adaptor of your hard disk and see if it is detected if not try to replace the sata cable. please reply if you have a question i will help you more.

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try replacing all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA and the ones that attach from your motherboard to hard drive
have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they are probably old and faulty ?
good luck

use partition magic to delete all patrition and recreate new empty ones

Windows XP does not have built in SATA drivers. You will need to download the XP drivers from Western Digital's website and install before the computer will allow you to format and use your new drive. Hope this helps.

I'm not sure if the motherboard supports SATA drives, so your best bet is getting any IDE (ATA) hard drive. It's up to you which kind you want. I've always been partial to Western Digital and Seagate.

If you are running Windows XP then you shouldn't have a problem with having a larger hard drive, I know Windows 2000 had some issues with them that required registery editing.