Western Digital WD2500JB problems

[Kev Sparrow]

Hi.
Just bought a WD2500JB (250Gig). This is my first WD drive, which I
jumpered to Cable Select and placed it as a slave. The master drive is
a Maxtor 40gig. I run XP pro, SP1 and an Abit NF7-S mobo with Bios 21
and the BIOS recognises the drive capacity correct.

I formatted the drive using Partition Magic 8, NFTS file system, 4k
cluster size. I wanted to install a fresh copy of XP onto the WD, so I
disabled the Maxtor, and switched the WD to master. However, when I
try and install XP onto the WD drive, I get 'error loading operating
system' when it reboots after going through first setup phase.

I have let windows create the partiton as well from windows setup, but
it still loads setup files and fails on reboot.

I also downloaded WD date lifeguard, but that program crashes as soon
I launch it, with or without a partition created.

All help really appreciated.
Thanks
Kevin

 

[xiaoke]

Hi.
Just bought a WD2500JB (250Gig). This is my first WD drive, which I
jumpered to Cable Select and placed it as a slave. The master drive is
a Maxtor 40gig. I run XP pro, SP1 and an Abit NF7-S mobo with Bios 21
and the BIOS recognises the drive capacity correct.

I formatted the drive using Partition Magic 8, NFTS file system, 4k
cluster size. I wanted to install a fresh copy of XP onto the WD, so I
disabled the Maxtor, and switched the WD to master. However, when I
try and install XP onto the WD drive, I get 'error loading operating
system' when it reboots after going through first setup phase.

I have let windows create the partiton as well from windows setup, but
it still loads setup files and fails on reboot.

I also downloaded WD date lifeguard, but that program crashes as soon
I launch it, with or without a partition created.

All help really appreciated.
Thanks
Kevin

I also bought a WD 80 gig HD. It came with a cd with Data Lifeguard and
options to copy data from one drive to the other. I copied my 40 gig Maxtor
HD to the new WD drive without a problem and booted off that drive without
changing jumpers. All I did was select the slave drive to boot from in the
bios. No need to install windows on the second drive if you can copy it.
I hope it works for you. Good luck !

 

[Mike Walsh]

The problem if probably because the drive is over 128 GB (or 137 GB depending on how you measure it). I know a couple of people that had great difficulty installing WinXP on these big drives. I recently read that WinXP SP1 is required for drives over 128 GB.

I also bought a WD 80 gig HD. It came with a cd with Data Lifeguard and
options to copy data from one drive to the other. I copied my 40 gig Maxtor
HD to the new WD drive without a problem and booted off that drive without
changing jumpers. All I did was select the slave drive to boot from in the
bios. No need to install windows on the second drive if you can copy it.
I hope it works for you. Good luck !

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West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

 

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