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Advanced Format Drive - Can it be made accessible for XP?
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 12:16PM
It's in a usb caddy; when plugged into XP computer it shows up as a 'RAW' file system or as an 'unsupported file system' in a partition recovery utility.
Can I reformat this disk and use it as an external data drive?
It's a 320gb WD Scorpio Blue; MDL: WD3200BPVT - 22ZEST0 [2.5" Laptop HD]
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 12:22PM
See here you need either a hardware jumper on two of the pins on the drive or install the WDAlign tool
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 9:27PM
Thanks FruitBat/\o/\ ... looks a bit complicated. Will try the WD Align Tool, later.



