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Page 1: Installation Guide
ATA Hard Drive Installation Guide P/N: 20186800/A... -
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Page 4: Getting Started
Getting Started Thank you for selecting a Maxtor hard drive storage product. This installation guide will lead you through the installation of your hard drive. The Maxtor Hard Drive Retail Kit includes the components shown in Figure 1. Your computer may need some or all of these parts to complete the installation. You will also need... -
Page 5: Back Up Your Data
Back Up Your Data Protect your data by backing up existing hard drives before installing your new Maxtor hard drive. Important Capacity Notice System User Manual If you are installing this hard drive without an Ultra/ATA PCI adapter card, be sure that your computer meets the system requirements printed on the Maxtor box. -
Page 6: Installing The Hard Drive
Installing the Hard Drive This chapter describes how to physically install the hard drive in your computer. The installation steps are as follows: • Remove the system cover. • Set the jumpers. • Mount the hard drive in your computer. •... -
Page 7: Setting The Jumpers
40-pin Ultra ATA cable like the one included. Before installing a new hard drive, Maxtor recommends that you check to see if any device currently attached to the ATA cable you wish to use is configured as cable select. You may need to consult the documentation for this device or its manufacturer for jumper configuration... - Page 8 ATA cable. To avoid potential issues with hard drive detection and performance, Maxtor does not recommend attaching a hard drive as a slave on the same cable as an ATAPI device. (For cable configuration, see “Existing System 3” on page 11.) Jumper Style A To determine your hard drive’s jumper style...
- Page 9 Jumper have a bug in the on-board ATA controller that can cause data corruption on hard drives in master or slave configuration. Maxtor recommends that owners of affected systems Figure 6. Jumper Positions attach their hard drive to a Macintosh-compatible ATA PCI adapter card (not included) instead of the on-board ATA controller.
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Page 10: Mounting The Hard Drive
Mounting the Hard Drive Before mounting the hard drive in your system, you need to determine whether you are installing the hard drive in a 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch device bay. If you are unable to locate an available device bay in your computer, please consult your system user manual. 3.5-inch Device Bay Installation When installing the hard drive in a 3.5-inch device bay, you do not need to use mounting brackets. - Page 11 5.25-inch Device Bay Installation When installing the hard drive in a 5.25-inch bay (such as where CD-ROM drives are typically installed), you first need to attach mounting brackets to the hard drive. Attach the mounting brackets to the hard drive using four of the eight screws. See Figure 8 for details.
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Page 12: Attaching The Cables
An Ultra ATA cable (included) no longer than 18 inches is recommended for all UDMA- capable hard drives and is required for hard drives configured as cable select. Maxtor strongly recommends using the Ultra ATA cable included in this package. - Page 13 Hard Drive Position Tips Most systems are capable of holding four ATA/IDE devices, two devices on the primary cable and two devices on the secondary cable or port. Typical configurations are as follows: New System (See “Installing Hard Drive as a Boot Drive” on page 16.) Cable Position Device Secondary Master, 0...
- Page 14 Existing System 2 (See “Installing Hard Drive as an Additional Hard Drive” on page 21.) Cable Position Device Primary Master, 0: Boot Drive Primary Slave, 1: Additional Storage Drive Secondary Master, 0: CD-ROM Secondary Slave, 1: CD-ROM or DVD Existing System 3 (See “Installing Hard Drive as an Additional Hard Drive”...
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Page 15: Configuring The System Bios
BIOS already set to auto-detect a hard drive after connecting the cables, thus eliminating the need to enter the Setup utility. If this is the case, the new Maxtor hard drive will be identified on the screen as the system boots. You can then proceed with the instructions for “Formatting the Hard Drive”... - Page 16 Press the pause/break key after the memory count to pause the system boot. The pause/break key is usually located in the upper right corner of your keyboard (see Figure 13). Pausing the boot will give you time to locate the function key message. Print Pause Scroll...
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Page 18: Formatting The Hard Drive
Addressing (LBA). Creating partitions larger than 137 GB on systems that do not support 48-bit LBA can result in data loss. The Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card fully supports 48-bit LBA and can be purchased (in the U.S.) from www.maxtordirect.com. -
Page 19: Installing Hard Drive As A Boot Drive
Insert the system boot disk in the floppy drive and click Next. A window appears stating that your boot files are being copied to the hard drive. When the copying is finished, the Partitioning and Formatting the Maxtor Drive screen appears. Formatting the Hard Drive... - Page 20 Click Next to continue. Allow the MaxBlast Plus II program to partition and format the hard drive using the Standard Partitions option. Your hard drive is automatically partitioned to the largest capacity by default. The hard drive is assigned a single drive letter if installing Windows 98 or newer operating system.
- Page 21 After the system boot disk finishes loading, you should see the A:\ prompt. Above the prompt, you should also see a line saying Drive X: = Driver MSCD001 unit 0 where X is the drive letter assigned to the CD-ROM drive. Depending on how many devices are connected to the ATA/IDE cables, the assigned CD-ROM drive letter could be E, F, G, etc.
- Page 22 XP CD, see the workaround included in When using MaxBlast Plus II to install Windows XP from CD-ROM: Maxtor’s Knowledge Base article #855. Enter the system BIOS and check the boot sequence or boot order settings. They Depending on the manufacturer of your may need to be changed to: Floppy >...
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Page 23: Installing Hard Drive To Replace Existing Hard Drive
When MaxBlast Plus II is finished formatting the hard drive, remove the floppy disk from the floppy drive and the CD from the CD-ROM drive. Insert the Windows XP CD in the CD-ROM drive and restart your system. Follow the onscreen prompts to boot from the Windows XP CD and install the operating system. -
Page 24: Installing Hard Drive As An Additional Hard Drive
Switching the hard drives may require changing the jumper settings before reattaching the cables. For Maxtor hard drives, refer to the jumper illustrations on page 4. For other manufacturers’ hard drives, check the product manual that came with the hard drive. - Page 25 Restart the system. When the MaxBlast Plus II program starts, you will be notified that an unformatted hard drive has been found. When asked if you would like to format the hard drive now, click Yes. The next screen shows the devices that are connected to your ATA/IDE cables. The new hard drive is identified with Partition and Format in red lettering.
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Page 26: Getting Help
Getting Help This section provides troubleshooting tips and answers frequently asked questions about installing a hard drive. You can find additional information in the Maxtor Knowledge Base at www.maxtor.com/knowledgebase or contact us at www.maxtor.com. Installation Troubleshooting Why does my system freeze during the boot process? Why does the full capacity of my hard drive not show after I install it? •... - Page 27 Another way to overcome the BIOS limitation is to install an Ultra ATA PCI card like the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card. • If the system still hangs after the installation of the capacity limitation jumper, try the user-definable option in the BIOS setup utility as follows: Power the system off and disconnect the ATA and power cables from the hard drive.
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Page 28: Frequently Asked Questions
Why do I need to format my hard drive? Does it come from the factory already formatted? Many operating systems are available that each have their own type of hard drive format. Maxtor hard drives come from the factory with a low- level format, but require a high-level format for your specific operating system to store and retrieve data properly. - Page 29 Read the complete installation and test guide on the web page. After you have read through this manual, if you are still having trouble getting the hard drive installed and working properly, call the Maxtor Technical Support Helpline at 1-800-2-MAXTOR.
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Page 30: Glossary
Plus II. On Macintosh systems, high-level formatting is often referred to as initialization. Low-level formatting sets up the locations of sectors on the drive. Maxtor hard drives are low-level formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted by the end user. - Page 31 An electromechanical device used for information storage and retrieval, incorporating one or more rotating disks Hard Drive on which data is recorded, stored, and read magnetically. Jumper In ATA/IDE drives, a jumper is an electrically-conductive component that you place over pairs of pins that extend from the circuit board on the hard drive jumper block to connect them electronically.
- Page 32 Index frequently asked questions 25 requirements 1 attaching cables 9 Ultra ATA cable 9 Ultra/ATA adapter card 2 getting help 23 partitioning Ultra/ATA PCI adapter card 2 hard drive 15 BIOS capacity barrier 25 Macintosh 15 installing positioning drives 10 Windows 2000 16, 18 additional hard drive 21 cable select 5...
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Page 33: Maxtor Product Warranty
Maxtor serial number and model number may be required for warranty service. The warranty applies only to the Maxtor products that can be identified by the Maxtor trademark, trade name or logo affixed to them. Maxtor does not warrant any product that is not manufactured by, for, or with permission from Maxtor. - Page 35 © 2002 Maxtor Corporation. All rights reserved. Changes are periodically made to the information herein which will be incorporated in revised editions of this publication. Maxtor may make changes or improvements to the product(s) described in this publication at any time and without notice. MaxBlast is a trademark and Maxtor is a registered trademark of Maxtor Corporation. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.