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I've put a new Western Digital Hard Drive in Today




By juliesteven on Nov 05, 2009

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i've put a new Western Digital Hard Drive in Today But it wont boot up,
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Posted by jaye_ellen on Nov 05, 2009

Has the new hard drive been prepared with all the software, to make the disk bootable? Hard drives do not come with information already on them and must be prepared with specific procedures in a particular order.

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if it is an external drive go to Bios and turn the usb emulation to no boot
if it is an internal drive check if is detected
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