Western Digital Scorpio - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support

A common issue...I'm sure your hard drive is working fine, Windows is just not giving it an unused drive letter.

1. Insert the device (camera or usb drive)
2. Right-click "My Computer" and select "Manage".
3. Click on "Disk Management"
4. Right-click the item in the list that looks like your camera or usb drive, and then click "Change Drive Letter and Paths."
5. Click "Change".
6. Give it a drive letter that is not being used.
7. Click OK.

The device should work instantly after that.

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

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Fogit it - you are fcked. Only alternative you have at this juncture is to avail yourself of a data recovery service at great expense. Sometimes a repair operation or diagnostic test on a finicky drive could permanently trash the unit or make it worse. That is apparently what happened to your drive. In the future this incident should impress on you the fact that a hard drive backup of important data is always a must. All hard drives from the moment of manufacture start to die - we just do not know when!

According to Microsoft, Windows 7 must be installed on a primary partition. This error code means the installer hasn't found a primary partition on the target drive. The primary partition must be on the first hard drive in the boot order, and if you have more than one user partition (not counting the small drive table partition), you must install to the first user partition. Unfortunately MS doesn't seem to have a clear, comprehensive answer to the issue. I've gleaned the following from various forum responses.

For some reason the installer is date sensitive, so make sure the time and date are correct in the BIOS. Time your next install attempt so it will NOT go past midnight during the installation.

Check your BIOS settings to make sure the drive is listed as a "primary" drive (drive 0, not drive 1) rather than a secondary.

Some people have had problems with the Windows 7 installer on drives that have the Master Boot Record from previous installations. Try a FORMAT /MBR using the Windows 7 install CD. If this doesn't work,

1. Use the partition command to remove the target partition from the drive to wipe this out
2. Partition the now unused space and reformat (again!), and
   
3. If the partition command or installer has an option to set a partition as primary (or something else), choose primary (disk 0) for the partition you want to use for Windows 7.

If all else fails, use your HP Software Recovery CD to do a complete repartition and reformat. You could use the Windows 7 partition command to do the same thing, but then you would lose the HP System Recovery partition. However, if HP is marking the System Recovery partition as partition 0, it could be causing the problem. In that case, see if HP has an updated version of the CD that includes a fix for this, or do without it and turn it all over to Windows 7.

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.

Look for your model number on Western Digital's support site: http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=701&lang=en

Look at the Western Digital Support site at: https://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/5391#jumper

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.

Time to get a new HD. HD manufacturers supply utilities that make it easy to automate the transfer to a new drive.

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

Boot the system from the Installation diskette. Install will happen automatically.