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		montro809 Officially active!
 
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				 Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:57 am    Post subject: My Western Digital 250GB hard drives | 
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				my frined recently give me two western digital hard drives 250GB, in put them into a external enclosure and my computer recognized it, but i says cant not be installed and , is not working properly,, and i click update driver and widows installed, and says is working properly, but i cant see it im my computer, i try to download the drivers from western digital web site, but still doesn't work,,,,,can someone help me please?? is it the frimware? drivers?   | 
			 
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		Bal Officially active!
 
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				 Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:17 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				| Have you checked the jumpers? I had same problem when I put a hdd in to a lan server enclosure forgot to set hdd as master. | 
			 
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		montro809 Officially active!
 
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				 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:20 am    Post subject: solved | 
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				| i download the hdd setup utility. | 
			 
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		NeGrusti Active contributor
 
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				 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:55 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Check if you can see the new drive in
 
Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management.
 
You don't need any utilities or drivers if your Windows and drive itself is functioning properly. | 
			 
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