I have a western digital WD1600 WD Caviar SE Serial ATA Hard Drive in my Desktop PC. Yesterday i noticed a loud clicking when i started up, and shut down my PC. Now today when i started my computer i got a screen that said there was a memory issue, but my Ram is fine. I also noticed that the serial ATA cable connection to the back of the hard drive looked a little melted. Is there any way to fix this issue, or do i need to replace the whole HD?

If you open the case you will destroy the internal parts of the hard drive

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

You should be able to find one here http://www.hdd-parts.com/wd-caviar-se.html

Well, if this hard drive is SATA and looks like this:

Then you don't need to worry about the jumpers at all, the hard drive is ready for use in your PC.


However, if it's IDE, which looks like this:


You will need to move the pins to the "Slave" setting, and on Western Digital drives it is one set of vertical pins going away from the 4 pin power input, the above picture is set for Slave mode, and can be used as a reference.

In your formatting on a windows machine you can format by right clicking the new drive and select format. Or you can format by opening manager by right clicking on my computer and choose manage then go to disk management and locat the new drive and right click format

Amazon.com has lots of these.

You can't unless you can back it up with a usb stick that would be big enough to hold it.

Good morning! Please make sure that the drive’s power and SATA cables are properly connected. If the Serial ATA host adapter card is installed in a 64-bit PCI slot on the system motherboard, move the card to a 32-bit slot.

Verify that only one power cable (either SATA or legacy) is connected to the drive. Check to see that the power connector and SATA interface cable are securely attached and that the
SATA host adapter card is properly seated in the PCI slot.

The Serial ATA interface connects each drive in a point-to-point configuration with the built-in SATA port on the motherboard or with the SATA host adapter card; therefore eliminating the master/slave relationship as required with EIDE. Each drive utilizes its own
cable for data transfer rates. Jumper settings for Western Digital Serial ATA hard drives are mainly used for enterprise storage environments.

Most third party controller cards and RAID adapters are recognized as a SCSI device under Device Manager. This is normal and will not affect your drive or system performance.

To verify if the Serial ATA drive is recognized by the system, Right-click on the My Computer icon, select Properties, left-click on the Hardware tab, and click on Device Manager in the window. Double-click on Disk Drives. Your new Western Digital Serial ATA drive should be listed as a "SCSI Disk Device" or "Serial ATA Disk Device." If not, make sure that all cables are securely attached and that your system BIOS has been properly configured. regards

try using the dynamic drive overlay supplied with the drive? Your MB may not be able to handle it.

I guess there is nothing with BIOS since it identify your Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive. Try changing the jumper setting of this Hard Drive by reading the Instruction that comes along when you purchase. Otherwise you can visit the Western Digital website and click on Support-Knowledge BASE...http://www.wdc.com