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eberg221 · 07-01-2009, 03:26 PM

Ive just bought the WD5000AAKB pata drive and was hoping to use it as a 3rd hard drive along with my two sata drives.
Problem is I cant get this drive to do anything. It shows in my device manager and in the bios but not in My Computer. So I used the windows disc to attempt to format it but when I try to assign a partition it does nothing just kicks me back to the partition page and still reads as unpartitioned.
When I switched the jumpers from cable select to master the drive size went from 411265 to 7065 in the windows partition thing??? And still I cant partition it.
ive even tried disabling all other drives in my system except that one and the cd rom drive still no luck. Cursing at it also didnt help just made me feel alittle better.

Im using and A8V mother board with 2 wd sata drives but as I stated above I disabled those with no success so now im just stumbed. Im starting to think its a bad drive but id figured Id ask the pros for a second opinion before I send it back.

07-01-2009, 03:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
eberg221 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 4 OS: XP HOME SP3	[SOLVED] WD5000AAKB PATA Drive Problems Ive just bought the WD5000AAKB pata drive and was hoping to use it as a 3rd hard drive along with my two sata drives. Problem is I cant get this drive to do anything. It shows in my device manager and in the bios but not in My Computer. So I used the windows disc to attempt to format it but when I try to assign a partition it does nothing just kicks me back to the partition page and still reads as unpartitioned. When I switched the jumpers from cable select to master the drive size went from 411265 to 7065 in the windows partition thing??? And still I cant partition it. ive even tried disabling all other drives in my system except that one and the cd rom drive still no luck. Cursing at it also didnt help just made me feel alittle better. Im using and A8V mother board with 2 wd sata drives but as I stated above I disabled those with no success so now im just stumbed. Im starting to think its a bad drive but id figured Id ask the pros for a second opinion before I send it back. Last edited by eberg221; 07-01-2009 at 03:53 PM.