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WD Scorpio Blue as an external hard drive?

Dec 17, 2011 6:21AM PST

I bought a 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue hard drive (WD3200BEVE) for a laptop that died. Since then I have gotten rid of the laptop but wanted to use the hard drive externally for my PC for storage. I bought a Gigaware 2.5" IDE Hard Drive Enclosure. I set it up and the enclosure light turns blue. The PC searched for the drivers for quite a while and failed. From what I see on the WD website they don't offer drivers for external use of the hard drive. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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Should be fine.
Dec 17, 2011 6:41AM PST

No drivers is correct. But I find some forget to partition and format these blank drives.

Did you prepare the drive?

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Dec 17, 2011 7:21AM PST

Thanks for the reply. I did not prepare it as you mentioned. How do I partition and format the blank drive? When I plug it in, the PC makes the sound that it recognizes something was plugged in, but no drive appears in the Computer folder. Thanks again any help is appreciated. FYI I have a Dell that uses Windows Vista.

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For Vista you prepare drives with the Disk Management tool.
Dec 17, 2011 9:38AM PST

Click the orb, type DISK MANAGEMENT and you should find it.