Hello, I purchased a Western Digital Caviar 4.3 drive about a yr. ago and was finally going to use it as an additional drive in my system. When I purchased it, they said it was a new system pull (that was upgraded) and was formatted to DOS. To prepare the drive, (partition and format), I removed my original master drive and installed this one. When i boot up, it says its detecting the drive but never finds it. I went into the CMOS Setup and tried to detect it in there also but it didn't. I had a couple other drives laying around and it would detect them right away. I'm pretty sure this drive is no good but just wanted to ask. The drive does spin up as I can hear it and feel it. The date on the drive is Oct. 7, 2000. I have the jumper set to master. Have any of you been able to get a drive like this to work in some way, shape or form? I know its just a little drive and i should just probably throw it. It appears WD has changed the warranty and dropped it to 1 yr. on the Caviar drives. so probably no chance there. Just wondering...
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