Western Hard Drive

I hear that western digital or seagate are the best does not over heat and last a long time. Also do external hard drive need to be format and partition before use or is it done at the factory where it is made?

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And is the transferability of the warranty affected by whether or not I registered the drive with Western Digital? If it matters, the hard drive is an internal desktop model (Caviar Green 1TB). Thanks!

Western Digital HDD is warranty covered for the term of the warranty, regardless of ownership. Their warranty is on the workmanship of the hardware,

I have a 300GB Western Digital hard-drive that I previously used with my Mac Book. I now have a Netbook running Windows XP and wanted to know how to reconfigure the hard-drive. As of right now, nothing happens when I plug in my hard-drive; it seems the computer doesn't even recognize it.

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what is the difference between these two portable hard drives? Western Digital 500GB My Passport Essential Portable External Hard Drive, and the Western Digital 500GB My Passport Elite Portable External Hard Drive, Thanks!

the difference of the two is the software that come on them the elite has more the the other one if you look at the chart of what software is on them at

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