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    750 gb Western Digital drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ColemanBrians, Nov 11, 2010.

  1. ColemanBrians

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    I currently have a 250gb 7200 rpm western digital drive as my primary in my laptop. When I put the 750gb 5400 rpm western digital scorpio blue drive into my laptop it blue screens. Does anyone know why this is? Can I not have two drives of different rpms in the computer? Is that why it is blue screening? It does it right before start-up only when the second drive is in though not when the first is by itself. Thanks
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Unplug the 750 GB drive and see if it blue screens.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Nov 11, 2010
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    A blue screen has a lot of information on it. Can you see what driver or what causes the bluescreen? 750GB is beyond the basic capability of some current notebook BIOSs, so you may need to set some jumpers or something on it. I'm not totally sure, though.
     
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