Western Digital Caviar - Answered Questions & Fixed Issues

AS long as the computer device drivers are up to data, the USB port should be operational and communicate with your external drive. If the external drive is connected to a USB port and you are certain the external drive is running (listen for the whirring sounds) and still no communication; the hard drive may have lost the formatting feature. Switch USB ports around and see if any signal reaches the File Explorer in Windows.

Download testdisk and run it to see if it recognised in the list. If so use the intel option to find a boot sector

Keep things simple and replace with identical unit. A screwup could prove to have real nasty repercussions.

If there is a bios chip on the board, heat it to remove it and change it with the bios chip on the new board.

Just install it. No jumpers are needed on a SATA drive.

Increase your memory to the maximum supported by your motherboard.

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Get a new case and transfer the hard drive to the new case. You can get cases at any store that sells computer parts and several places online. https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/external-hard-drive-enclosures

Take any jumpers off the drive. If there are none, check the data cable to make sure it's in the correct spot on the motherboard. Connecting it to a blue or white connector will do that.

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No jumpers is the factory settings on an SATA drive

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Bios will find the drive or you can manually enter the heads and cylinder count from the data on the label of the hard drive.

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Go to WD's website and download a new firmware file.

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