Formatting The Hard Drive - Maxtor ATA Hard Drive Installation Manual

Drives Larger than 137 GB: To avoid
data loss, do not create partitions
larger than 137 GB on your drive
unless it is attached to an Ultra ATA/
133 PCI card or your system is
capable of properly accessing the full
capacity of drives larger than 137 GB.
See "Using a Drive Larger than 137
GB" on page 25 for more information

Formatting the Hard Drive

This chapter describes how to format and partition your new hard drive
using the MaxBlast software on a Windows system. Maxtor strongly
recommends that all Windows customers use the MaxBlast installation
software, rather than FDISK or the Windows Disk Management tool,
to partition and format the hard drive.
Choose from one of the following typical hard drive
installation options:
• New system with boot drive installation or replacing a failed boot
drive in an existing system. Depending on which operating system
you wish to install, see "Installing a New Boot Drive (Windows 98,
Me)" on page 19, or "Installing a New Boot Drive (Windows
.
2000, XP)" on page 21.
• Existing system with original boot drive and you want to copy all
your data to the new hard drive to use it as a boot drive. See
"Installing an Additional Storage Drive or Replacement Boot Drive
(Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP)" on page 23.
• Existing system with original boot drive and you want to use your
new hard drive as additional storage only. See "Installing an Addi-
tional Storage Drive or Replacement Boot Drive (Windows 98,
Me, 2000, XP)" on page 23.
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