WD Black2 Dual Drive & Windows 10

[Adrian_Eaton]

Hiya - good to hear

Just hoping for some guidance on what steps are required, assuming a fresh install of Win10, from removing any existing partitions through the install steps. I’ve got the install media for Win10 on a DVD.

I’ve already tried installing the WD software and it’s not showing any removal options (it’s also refusing to install!)

Cheers

Adrian

[flhthemi]

If you read through this thread you’ll end up knowing what to do and how to do it. There are several posts.

But basic:

1 Remove existing partitions with software of your choice
2 Create a partiton of 111GB using the software of your choice
3 Install Windows 10 to that partition
4 Then if you want use Windows Disk Management to partition the remainder of the drive as D:

The WDBlack software will NOT be needed nor will it install to Windows 10

[Adrian_Eaton]

Thanks for the guidance - finally decided to crack on with it last week with a fresh install:

Used GParted to remove all existing partitions on the black2
Created 1 partition of 111GB approx
Installed using my Win10 Pro DVD media (luckily as I’d done an in place upgrade previously I just ignored all the requests for a key and once online it recognised my laptop and assigned the key again!)
Installed some progs and then used GParted again to create a couple more partitions

My laptop’s battery was charging during the install and crapped itself part way through, when it’s only 3 months old! Had to start again with the battery removed, so laptop only working on the mains at the moment…

A few oddities with dual graphics and a complete lack of driver support from HP for a 5/6 year old laptop but it’s getting better with a few tweaks

Hopefully have it finished in a couple more sessions!

[flhthemi]

I love a success story!

[Sung-wook]

Dear guys,
Thanks to your guide, I’m successfully using my Black2 drive in Win10 OS.

My old laptop(Win7) died somedays ago, so I moved Black2 from laptop to my old desktop.
I migrated my Win10 from HDD to Black2 using Minitool PartitionWizard 11(Free version).
Then booting with Black2 showed no error but HDD part disappeared.
So I used WD Black2 installer(5.1.532.5) but there occurred an error ‘Not enough free space on the HDD part…’
Finally with Windows disk manager, I made a partition on HDD part without any error.

(Sorry for the Korean letters)
I hope this continues to work perfectly.

Thanks, guys.