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Baby123 said: Some reviews r that it wont work with XP, good to work with Vista. any thoughts/input.
I have not personally used this drive with XP, but one review states:
"If you're using XP, you will need to do some additional work to make this drive perform correctly. This line of Western Digital drives is the first using their new "Advanced Format," which changes the sector size from 512B to 4KB. The more modern operating systems work fine with this, but Windows XP will not align the sectors correctly. Western Digital has two options to fix this for XP users. You can either put a jumper on pins 7-8 before installing the drive, but this only works if you're using it as a single partition for a clean install. Otherwise, use the WD Align utility. Western Digital has spelled out the steps quite nicely. Visit their site and search for "advanced format," and you should have all the information you need to proceed appropriately."
Although it will be a pain in the rear for XP users, this advanced format has some big advantages. The number of 512 byte sectors on the old drives had grown beyond the ability of the error-correction code size to protect, and was getting to the point where a 1 TB drive was statistically likely to have an uncorrectable bad sector. The new scheme fixes this by greatly expanding the size of the ECC block, which they can do because of the reduced sector count.
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