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Western Digital WD WD1600AAJB 20PK CAVIAR SE 160GB PATA HD 7200RPM 8MB 3.5LP Parallel ATA Hard Drive Questions & Answers
HW DO I PERFORM A WD SELF TEST
Hard drive testing of the WD is done with operating system tools that are in the system tools drop down menu. to test the hard drive in Windows follow the instructions at this
link
I have to HDD, The
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 might 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 electical extensions even something as small as an electrical fan and its lead can cause this problem or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs all electrical power and data to continue through every working device and to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error
hope this helps you
I ;have formatted the WD external drive and
You should not even try to install an operating system on an external drive. Windows looks at the "C" drive and installs programs to "C" drive. You are trying to put it on the "G" drive. You will have too many problems and wish you never had tried. Buy a larger main drive and partition it with two equal partitions. Then "Dual Boot". You will find how to do this on the internet. Just Google "Dual Booting".
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I have a Lenovo laptop.
If your HARD DRIVE was exposed to a magnetic field, this can happen.
Try a scandisck run.
Boot up in safe mode and run fix disk.
Cannot format my WD 1TB external hard drive
The hard disk is having bad sectors on its first 3000 sectors.the bad sectors are caused by degradation of the platter of the hard disk.OR the factory area of the hard disk has certain files called SMART, G -LIST and other log files.Unless one empties those log files with a good tool , one cant format ones hard disk.
Not detecting, beeping
This is likely a couple problems;
1. The hard drive is dying or is dead. You're looking at hardware recovery if this is the case. There are some tools such as Spinrite that might be able to recover the disk. (
GRCHard drive data recovery software)
2. The power supply on the computer/laptop is not functioning as well as it used to. Try using another PC to see if there's any difference in results.
Western digital 2tb my passport keeps flashing; not detected
Remove the drive from the external case it is in and connect directly to your computer - see if the bios recognizes it. If so, the OS will do so also and you can access it. Also means the electronics of the external case are no good. If not recognized in other machine, the hard drive has gone to hard drive heaven and needs to be replaced.
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