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Hello!
The drive you have is a SATA drive, and has no master/slave configuration as such.  There is a connector block on the back to configure other options such as spread spectrum clocking.  Normal configuration is a jumper between pins 1 and 2 (all the way on the right side, facing the back).  A picture of the other configuration options is shown below.
Hope this helps you out,
Ken

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect/ boot up a computer hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your MOTHERBOARD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs its connections to continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error even something as small as a faulty electrical extension or fan lead can cause you problems

computers need all of the data and electrical current to travel through every working device and to have an end to be able work properly

motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive if its a flat ribbon 40 pin type IDE replace it this will be the first to fail

check all electrical power input and extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd floppy drives need to have current go through make sure these drives are working

also check the Cmos battery and computer RAM modules make sure they are securely seated with no dust built up or in the sockets on some motherboards cmos batteries are soldered in

check you CPU make sure its securely seated and has thermal grease might be getting to hot

hope this helps you

Hello,You probably don't need to replace the hard drive. It may very well have enough space to install Windows 7. You can likely install Windows 7 on the old PC, but depending on how much ram the machine has it may not be such a great experience in the end.......seriously. If you can get 1 gig or more of ram in it, then it may be feasable to install win7, but don't expect much in the way of performance. I don't mean to sound negative though....if you're so inclined, then go for it! It is probably do-able.Joe

yes, but the harddrive needs to have the pins in the "slave" position to not conflict with the first harddrive's operation.

Chances are your disk is partitioned. If it's your Operating System drive, you should reformat with your OS disc. If it's just a secondary drive, check in Disk Management (Windows) or Disk Utility (Mac/Linux) and you can re-partition the drive as you desire.For windows, do search in the start menu search bat to find disk management, and in mac use spotlight to find disk utility.

This Can be done, however, it requires some work: (3rd party tools to read the partition, since OS X uses different partition styles than Windows, and they don't play well together.Here is a Thread in a forum which people have figured it out, it seems there's an application "MacDrive" that is supposed to solve this, maybe Daemon Tools.... either or both should do.Here is the Forum:http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=251227Hope this helps.Please rate me. Thanks!

If you are troubleshooting a system or OS problem, you should not consider firmware updates until after exploring more typical troubleshooting steps like file system error checking and anti-virus scanning.

If you are troubleshooting a system or OS problem, you should not consider firmware updates until after exploring more typical troubleshooting steps like file system error checking and anti-virus scanning. try uninstalling a few unnecessary programs then click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which will scan for and attempt to fix any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive this should schedule the task on restart then defragment your hard drive http://download.cnet.com/western-digital-disk-manager/3000-2122_4-10008018.html This file contains the most up-to-date Disk Manager drivers for Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5.1. This file fixes numerous issues, especially those with IBM PS/1 Value Point machines. These drivers will replace Ddloader.bin and Xbios.ovl files that were installed with previous versions of Disk Manager.

hope this helps you

Hi,Welcome to Fixya. If you are hearing a loud ticking or high pitch noise on the hard drive it means that the hard drive will be defective anytime soon. If you can take out the hard drive and backup the files on you computer and replace the hard drive on the computer. Loud noise can be caused by a bad spindle or the hard drive or the hard drive is frying inside the dvd recorder. If you have questions please let me know. Thanks

if the drivers are not installed for this device click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll through all of your devices if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark ? ! or a red X you will need to update the drivers for this device right click select update driver/reinstall driver if you can see your usb device but its not working sroll to Ports(Com&Ltd) right click to update driver if you computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it

http://download.cnet.com/jetway-motherboard-driver/3000-2098_4-163033.html

http://download.cnet.com/slimdrivers-free/3000-18513_4-75279940.htmlSlimDrivers automatically updates PC drivers with real-time scanning and cloud technology. The first cloud-based utility for updating and maintaining drivers, SlimDrivers provides instant optimization of the interaction between a computer and its system components and periperhals, such as printers, graphic and sound cards, motherboards, USB ports, game controllers and other devices and hardware. SlimDrivers scans a PC, identifies the correct drivers needed, and retrieves them from the cloud, automatically installing the most current, precise drivers for each individual PC. SlimDrivers features a one-click, start scan button on its product homepage, which begins the process automatically to scan a PC and identify out-of-date or broken drivers. Then, seamlessly, SlimDrivers creates a personalized driver profile of that PC, and accesses the online cloud database for the most up-to-date, customized driver software.

if this driver package is not the right http://download.cnet.com/2000-20_4.html on the home page you should see a search tab just type in what you are looking for (be precise) exclude - / you might have to search/try a few times to get it right or what you want also the download software finder under that there will be a list place a tick in the box of any one you want/need all software windows software mac software mobile and web apps

http://majorgeeks.com/downloads35.html

also this link will provide you with many freeware and share drivers

hope this helps you

Hi, Generally speaking, we have two types of hard disk interface. IDE (the old one with ribbon cable) and SATA (with a 1cm strip like cable).As your new hard disk is SATA, you need a SATA cable to connect it to you PC.Below are a few images which would help you.Hope it helps! Good Luck! Thanks for using Fixya!CreativeTECH

return code 7 is a hard drive error your hard drive could be damaged also the computer ram might be damaged
make sure your ram modules are securely seated with no dust in the sockets
you could run the chkdsk utility click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which will scan for and attempt to recovery any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive there are many ways of running the chkdsk utility i found the easiest way of running the chkdsk utility is to tick in these boxes click start righy click on my computer you should see your drive select properties click tools check now tick both boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery on any bad sectors or you could tick one box and wait until its finished then return and tick the other box then select check now,start should schedule this task when restart do not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage your computer then defragment your hard drive also download and run a registry cleaner cc cleaner is 100%free http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/ hope this helps you

if your computers motherboard is older than 5-6 yrs you might not be able to load windows 7
and you will need a minimum of 2GB of RAM

During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS the scroll down to advanced bios features press enter change your first boot device to cd,press escape then press f10 to save to cmos to restart (note after you have loaded the operating system you should go back and change the first boot device to your hard drive) The BIOS is AMI. Under ADVANCED SETUP: The options listed for 1st,2nd ,3rd Boot device include:IDE-0 means Pri master ?IDE-1 means Pri slave ?IDE-2 means Sec master ?IDE-3 means Sec slave ?hope this helps you

Hi

The WD schematic diagrams here should tell you everything you need to know:

http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2579-001037.pdf

Good luck!

I hope this helps.

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Make sure that in the computers bios, the SATA port is enabled, and that all the cables are properly connected, if the drive is brand new it needs to be first Partitioned and then formatted for it to show up in your "my computer" or computer folder.

try to use partition manager. best solution on detailed or low level formatting

better to replaced the hard drive, co'z once you heard a loud sound on it, that means that the drive is now having a physical damage, if you the hard drive still working, it will not stay longer due to physical damage inside of the hard drive.

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your "((MOTHERBOARD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE))" make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs its connections to continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error even something as small as a faulty electrical extension or fan lead can cause this problem

computers need all of the data and electrical current to travel through every working device and to have an end to be able work properly

a motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive if its a flat ribbon 40 pin type IDE replace it this will be the first to fail check all electrical power input and extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd floppy drives need to have current go through make sure these drives are working

also check the Cmos battery and computer RAM modules make sure they are securely seated with no dust built up or in the sockets

hope this helps you

test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty ?

even something as small as an electrical extension or a faulty fan lead can cause this problem computer needs all of the data and power to travel through every working device and to have an end for a computer to be able work properly

a motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive check all electrical extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd drives need to have current go through make sure these devices are working

also check your computer ram and cmos battery to make sure they are securely seated and the battery has plenty of chargehope this helps