WD Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400 RPM SATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive OEM (8 MB,2.5 inch,Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible)

Title : WD Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400 RPM SATA Mobile Internal Hard Drive OEM (8 MB,2.5 inch,Sony Playstation PS3 Compatible)
ASIN : B0037NYQ7K
Description : Western Digital Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320GB 25 Internal Hard drive SATA 3Gbs SATA 2 8MB Cache WD3200BPVT Components Internal Hard Drives
Features :

• Capacity:320 GB
• Width:70 mm
• Device Type:Hard drive - internal
• Depth:100 mm
• Weight:117 g

List Price : £75.20
Price : £38.73
Saved Price : £36.47

category: Products
brand: Western Digital
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.5
Review : Good Drive but Beware the Advanced Formatting
I purchased this drive as a replacement for a failing drive in my Toshiba laptop. Needless to say the new drive fitted perfectly but then I found that my Backup/Restore software would not recognise it. To cut a long story short I managed to initialise/format the drive on a second laptop but my backup/restore software would still not recognise the new drive. I tried a clean install which took absolutely hours to complete only to find that the system ran so slowly as to be unuseable. Further research revealed that this drive (model WD3200BPVT) uses advanced formatting and the Western Digital website carries a set of utilities which can be downloaded to adjust the formatting to make it compatible with older systems/PCs. Unfortunately the utilities are provided by Acronis and I just happen to be using a copy of True Image Home 10. The downloaded utility completely trashed my existing installation of Acronis and still would not recognise the new drive properly. Eventually I returned...