Hi, I’m just not quite sure if I need the WD align software in this situation. I’m installing this drive on to a machine that will be getting XP SP3 installed by recovering a Macrium image of a C partition taken from a failed hard drive on the machine. The image is just under 7 gigs. The drive…

If you are only going to use 1 partition you can use the jumper on pins 7-8, but if you want to clone a hard drive or want to use more than one partition, use the WD Align tool.