Using A Drive Larger Than 137 Gb - Maxtor ATA Hard Drive Installation Manual

Using a Drive Larger than 137 GB

To properly access the full capacity of a drive larger than 137 GB, you
must install one of the 137 GB solutions described below. Formatting a
drive past the 137 GB barrier on systems without an installed 137 GB
solution will result in data loss.
Ultra ATA/133 PCI Card Solutions
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If your Maxtor hard drive came bundled with an Ultra ATA/133 PCI
card, or you have an installed an Ultra ATA/133 PCI card, you can
safely install and use your drive with the card on Windows 98SE, Me,
2000, and XP. Note that ATA/100, 66, and 33 PCI cards do not
support drives larger than 137 GB unless specifically noted by the
manufacturer. Additionally, some system BIOSes do not support
booting to drives attached to an ATA card, so that you may only be
able to use this drive as additional storage and not as the boot drive.
If your are interested in adding an Ultra ATA/133 card to your system,
Maxtor recommends using the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter
Card which is fully compatible with all Maxtor ATA drive capacities.
The Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card is available from
www.maxtorstore.com or from your local computer retailer.
Operating System Solutions
The Windows operating systems that natively support the full capacity
of drives larger than 137 GB are:
• Windows XP Home, Service Pack 1 (SP1) and higher
25 Formatting the Hard Drive
Windows 98/Me Note: Some tools
built into Windows 98/ME, such as
Scandisk and Defrag, do not function
properly on hard drive partitions
larger than 137 GB. Third-party
utilities such as Norton Utilities 2002
can be used to replace the
functionality of Scandisk and Defrag
for partitions larger than 137 GB.
Macintosh Note: Mac systems
require a Mac-compatible Ultra ATA/
133 PCI card (not included) to access
the full capacity of a drive larger than
137 GB. Mac-compatible ATA/133
cards are available from Sonnet
(www.sonnettech.com), Miglia
(www.miglia.com), and ACARD
(www.acard.com).