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Western Digital WD RE3 WD5002ABYS hard drive 500 GB SATA300 SATA II Questions & Answers
Good morning. I have a
you have to format your hard drive using a third party disc to erase
everything on your hard drive
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
to advanced bios features press enter change your first boot device to cd,press
escape then press f10 to save to cmos restart
note this will erase you operating system you will have to have an
operating system disk to load it onto you hard drive or create a partition to
load another operating system
note after you have loaded the operating system you must 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:
IDE0 means Pri master
IDE1 means Pri slave
IDE2 means Sec master
IDE3 means Sec slave
or if you are using a USB
insert your usb drive
click start right click on my computer select open you should see your USB
drive
right click then select format
another way is to control panel
administrive tools,computer management disk management right click on your
drive select format
also you might use a disk wipe utility
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Free Disk Wipe data cleanup and file wipe
tool, that allows you to completely wipe/ remove / delete / erase a selected
file(s) on most disks (floppy disks, hard disks, logical drives, etc).
Data recovery software can
My WD5002ABYS drive crashed and
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 must go back and change the first boot device to your hard drive)
one bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive
Test the leads that attach to your ((hard drive from the motherboard)) or replace all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA and the ones that attach from your ((motherboard to hard drive))
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 are probably old and faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error
hope this helps
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".
Sir,
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.
I'm using a western digital external fp with usb. The usb connection is not working.
Hi John,
Try to connect it with your friend's system/Laptop. If it works then there is some problem with your system. If you are facing the same problem after testing with your friend's system then try it with the new cable.
If the problem remains the same then contact any data recovery experts or system repair experts. they will definitely solve the problem.
Thanks
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