Hello, I have had this for 2 years: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive Recently, I was having issues starting up windows. I would get a msg saying "bootmgr has failed". So I remove my 500gb hard drive (that i listed above), and everything is fine. The same happens when I put this hdd into my brother's pc. Did it stop working? How can I fix this? Thanks! Specs: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.5ghz 2GB 800mhz DDR2 ram Nvidia Geforce 8600GT main hdd: 153gb 2nd hdd: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (the problem one)
Unless your brothers PC is the exact same make and model then it will not work.. The drivers will all be different. I would piggy back the bad hard drive and try to fix it..
