WD Caviar 2500KS - trouble setting it up

MastermindUK

MastermindUK

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Hi, I've just got a Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II, and I haven't been able to get it running in my system.

What I've currently got is two IDE drives and, one 80GB the other 40GB, master and slave respectively, on an MSI K8N Neo2.

Now, I don't have any spare jumpers so I've tried taking out the 40GB drive and using the jumper off that to force the new drive into SataI mode.

When I started up it took ages to go from 'Detecting Drives' to showing the Drive table and then went into the BIOS, even though I didn't press Delete.

I haven't been able to start it up with only the SATA drive, it says Invalid partition table.

Any help would be nice. :)

Oh, my floppy drive doesn't seem to be working either, if it means anything.

Thanks.
 
You shouldnt need jumpers for the SATA drive. Just connect it and boot into windows(Presuming you already have windows installed on one of the other drives) Once in windows go to Controlpanel>Administrative tools>Computer management>Disk management and partition and format the new drive. One word of warning though; Ive just got a Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II, and there seems to be quite a few with a temperature sensor problem, causing the temp to read 15-20 degrees too high. So if your is reading too high, don't worry as its just the sensor.
 
SATA and SATA2 are completely backwards and forwards compatible. If your motherboard is not SATA2 compatible, it will simply mean that you wont be able to get the full SATA2 bandwidth(Which no harddrive is remotely capable of anyway.)
 
MastermindUK said:
I thought I would need the jumper because the MoBo is not SATA-II. I'll try without. :)
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I have just got 2 of the same drives, it works with the jumper for me, but I cant seem to get it operate in SATA II mode :confused:
 
messiah khan said:
I just plugged mine in and it was ready to go after partitioning it and formating. I didn't need to touch any jumpers at all. Thats on a MSI K8N Diamond.
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With these drives it to set the speed at 150Mb/s only operation. It may default to 150 when connected without the jumper. But I cant seem to get my SATA II port to pick either of my 2 drives up at all! But the SATA ports pick them up. Strange! :confused:
 
messiah khan said:
I just plugged mine in and it was ready to go after partitioning it and formating. I didn't need to touch any jumpers at all. Thats on a MSI K8N Diamond.
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Right again. Thanks for the help. Not sure why it doesn't need the jumper - I'm pretty sure the motherboard doesn't have SATAII :confused:
 
No problem, glad you got it sorted. :) Even if your mobo doesn't support SATA2, it doesn't matter, it simply means it will be limited to SATA1 speeds, which your drive wont be capable of anyway. Just out of interest, can you check in a program like Speedfan to see what the temperature is.. have you got one with a faulty sensor?
 
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