On Monday 28 November 2005 01:12, Chuck Andrews wrote:
> I just had to trash can a 4 year old Western Digital 100 GB that I
> could not run WD Diagnostics on because it said, "This software works
> only on Western Digital hard drives." Have any of you seen that dog
> and pony show before when you are trying to use Western Digital
> software on a Western Digital Drive? Spinrite threw errors, also. It
> had, before I formatted it, shown about 7 blocks that contained bad
> sectors. I guess if Western Digital does not claim their own drive,
> you go straight to trash can and bypass phone booking it. It would
> not allow ghost in Real DOS mode to copy data to it, either.
>
> Chuck
You must run the latest WD tools. The older ones may not recognise the
newer drive.
I have also had this error on a faulty WD 120Gb drive. WD replaced it
without question.
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