I have been using Windows 7 for quite some times and I am loving it. My external hard disk drive screwed up on me recently, some folder has turned into some stupid 32kb cluster file named File, not accessible at all. Tried to recover some of it but fail. So I need a new hard disk drive to dump whatever files that are still accessible in my external into it. Then I’m gonna do a fresh format of the external HDD.

I bought my 500GB SATA HDD from Gadget Zone at Prangin Mall for RM188 (US$56) and it’s a Western Digital. What do you think about the price? Have been using Western Digital for a long time, the HDD that was in my old PC, in the laptop, my external’s, my brother’s PC are all Western Digital. I don’t really know about how other brands like Maxtor, Seagate perform, but I tend to go for Western Digital.


What you are seeing is the Ikea’s halogen table lamp. I don’t have any torch at home so I took it for my lighting to shine my way around in the chassis because I didn’t want to unplug all the cables from the CPU, so I just installed into the chassis right where the CPU is.

Slotted it in, plugged in SATA cable and power cable and all set.

It’s now a total of 750GB internal HDD capacity my PC has.


Every fresh install of HDD will not show up straight away in the My Computer because it needed to be format before it’s usable. I’ve forgotten about it but thanks to Google, problem solved in less than 5 minutes.
- Press Start button, and
- search Disk Management,
- you will see “Create and format hard disk partitions“,
- open it and
from there, you format your new HDD and you are all done.









































































































2 comments
beN says:
Nov 16, 2009
good one nick. this may help me in the future.
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