Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio Blue 100 Mb/s 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD2500BEVE
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Manufacturer: Western DigitalAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD
Model: WD2500BEVE
Product features:
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- WD Scorpio Blue drives offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation, perfect for notebooks.
- WD's exclusive WhisperDrive co MBines state-of-the-art seeking algorith ms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
- WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.
- These algorith ms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption.
- These algorithm ms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption.
- WD's exclusive WhisperDrive co MBines state-of-the-art seeking algorithm ms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
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Customer Review: Computer geek
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this Western Digital 250 gb PATA drive to upgrade my Dell 700M with 60 gb, using an USB PATA adaptor. It was a frustrating process since Dell has 3 partitions in the original drive. After using Acronis True Image to clone the old hard drive, swapped the newly cloned 250 hard drive in the Dell 700M and tried to boot it up and I got an error message reading "Loading PBR for descriptor 2...done" and would not go further. I went on Dell's support forum, spent hours reading what people posted with the same error message and tried almost all suggestions, to no avail. I also reset the BIOS, disabled the USB drive before reboot and it didn't seem to help. Before I gave up, I said to myself "it's so ridiculous that I spent all these hours trying to make this stupid thing work and I'm just going to give up just like that!" So, I gave it another try, using the software I downloaded from Western Digital, I reformated the WD2500beve hard drive, tested all the sectors and the hard drive was good to go. Using Acronis True Image 2010, I ran the program again, using the "automatic" mode and let it go all night (from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.). It was still not done by 7:00 a.m. and took another hour and went through all the 5 steps (make sure that all the 5 steps have gone through, since the last step was copying the master boot record (MBR) to the new drive. I took the USB cable off, reset the BIOS with "USB" off--very important and rebooted. Then during reboot, there was another error message. I was so upset with the whole process, since it's just a Dell type of thing. My last resolve was to reboot the computer again and hit "F8" for safe boot to see if the whole thing would even go to the safe mode. To my surprise, it went through the regular boot and now everything is okay. If your laptop is Dell, make sure of the following:
1. Need the lastest BIOS (in my case A07)
2. Make sure that Windows has LBA (enable the BigLba in the registry)and your new hard drive is recognized. In the case of the WD 250 gb dirve, only 238 gb is recognized but it's good enough for me.
3. Disable the USB driver in the BIOS before rebooting the computer with the newly cloned hard drive.
4. Hit "F8" if you still have trouble and good luck.
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Description of Western Digital 250 GB Scorpio Blue 100 Mb/s 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD2500BEVE
With capacities up to 320 GB, WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch PATA hard drives from Western Digital deliver lightning-fast and ultra-quiet performance hand-in-hand with low power consumption. In addition, they are designed with ruggedness, reliability, and data-protection features that actively watch over valuable data. These drives feature up to a 100 Mb/s PATA interface and 8 MB cache. WD Scorpio Blue hard drives are designed for portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, external storage, and digital media players.Digital Cameras and Photo Categories
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