How to get a WD My Book 4TB with a brand new harddisk drive working again?

SOURCE: installing new HDD & another DVD drive

Problem with HDD is power usage 320gig uses to much, WD 160 is best though just a bit small which may cause issue if you fill it up. WD200gig OK but at threshold of what power supply can handle. Disk needs to be filled with original disk image to get firmware and custom file system. Smallest I've got image down to is 11gig

SOURCE: my computer will and won't reconise my WD My Book but not both drives

any answer?

SOURCE: Dell Dimension 2400 - Adding second HD

I presume that the hard drives are ATA drives, and if the WD and Maxtor are installed on the same IDE cable then the boot drive, the WD HD needs to have the jumper set to Master or Master with Slave drive, and the Maxtor needs the jumper set to Slave drive.
If the computer on boot up doesn't recognise the boot drive the move the jumper to the CSL setting.

If the Maxtor is on the second IDE cable it does not matter if the jumper to either Master or Slave provided you do not have anything else connected to this cable. If you have a CD or DVD connected to the second IDE cable as well as the Maxtor HD then you need to check the devices on this cable (ie. the jumpers) are not set the same on both devices.

On boot up go into the BIOS and check that the master and slave devices are set to Auto (detect).

You should after booting up now see both hard drives and any CD/DVD.
The data on the Maxtor drive would include your original Windows and programs and data, you would need to remove these redundant files and programs to recover disk space.

If you can see on boot up all the hard drives and CD/DVD (as master and slave drives) but if you do not see the Maxtor drive from My Computer, then you need to delete the partition on the Maxtor drive, create a new partition, and format the drive, in this case you will not recover any of your original data.
To do this, you need to go to the Control Panel, Then Administrative Tools, then Computer Management then Disk Management. Right Click on Disk 1 (it should show a 80 Gb hard drive), delete the partition, then it would show this as an unallocated drive.
Right Click on this drive again and create a primary partition, follow the instructions and format the drive in NTFS file format.

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look, you can try to tell an supplier
the suppliers can help
or buy a new one xD

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SOURCE: i cant initialize disk

this problem to an i/o device happens mostly when itz defective/faulty..
check the following:
1)is ur m/b compatible..check with a substitute/standby..
2)if ur hdd is making any humming noise (like 'tic tic' or 'kirr kirr')..if so it is likely to be replaced..
3)replace the data cable with a standby n see..
4)all the power connectors n data cables r properly sitted n connected..
5)update/flash the bios..
6)check for firmware update and or raid drivers (as applicable)..

if u r not a professional, try contacting ur system admin/vendor....

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