I am running WinXP Professional SP3 and bought this drive as a second storage drive. Been as they didn’t send me a jumper (GRRRRRRRR) the instructions say to use the WD align software. Running this software did not recognise the drive at all, so I partitioned it using the Windows Disk Management to…

I just got off the phone with WD support. The tech asked me to download the WD Align System Utility - Powered by Paragon and try that. According to him, it’s preferred over the Acronis utility. I downloaded and ran it while I was on the phone with him, and sure enough, it recognized that the dri…

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WD20EARS shows up as 'Not a Western Digital Advanced Format Disk' in align tool

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Bluud September 21, 2010, 2:16pm 5

Yup, that worked perfectly! Thanks