Western Digital Caviar 2850 Driver Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Joyce Mack
Tested on Windows 95
15 Dec 2008
(48 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I cannot get it open to save it to a diskette. I am using winzip12. I do not know what I am doing wrong."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
simon
Tested on Windows 2000 Professional
29 Aug 2007
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"did not use it in the end"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
H_ASPDEN

25 Feb 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Probably not the correct driver. I was looking for

Kroll ONTRACK overlay that is currently loading before being used to access a 1 GB Seagate HD."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Edward Freeman
Tested on Windows 3.x
17 Apr 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"great driver, did exactly what it was supposed to. had no problems installing and no problems running it."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Robert

3 Aug 2004
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Easy to download but difficult to install and getting it to work; best thing is dump the hard drive there's better HDs out there (Just was trying to salvage it)"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Janet

25 Mar 2004
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"was starting to download this driver--but noticed the file did not match with the driver I was needing--became suspious and stopped it---you may need to check this one"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Frazier

29 Jan 2004
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Hi, It appears there is a file or two missing in order to make this thing go. I'm still using Windows 95 and it has asked for an information file that is not present. I'm quite new at all this so the problem could be on my end."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Frazier

29 Jan 2004
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Hi, It appears there is a file or two missing in order to make this thing go. I'm still using Windows 95 and it has asked for an information file that is not present. I'm quite new at all this so the problem could be on my end."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
lando

27 Apr 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"wanted to use this driver to install the caviar drive via a usb 2.0 connected adstech.com usb drive kit. windowsxp is supposed to automatically install the hard drive, but it didnt. so i figured these drivers might work. they dont either. anyone have any clues?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
not related to the driver

21 Apr 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"i recently got hold of said HD and was wondering what is the correct jumper configuration to make the drive a slave drive"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Milan Kleibl

8 Jan 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"BIG THANX !!!, this driver save my life! )"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jim Gregory

12 Sep 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"my computer says "This program cannot be run in DOS mode"."
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