Maxtor ATA Hard Drive Installation Manual page 28

• Windows XP Professional, SP1 and higher
• Windows 2000 Professional, SP3 and higher
• Windows 2000 Server, SP3 and higher
The latest Service Pack from Microsoft must be installed on your
system, them patched by the MaxBlast application to ensure full support
for large drives. To download the latest Service Pack for Windows XP
or 2000, visit http://www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
Once you have installed the latest Service Pack, you must also install
and run the Windows version of MaxBlast to enable complete support
of larger drives. Open the MaxBlast application and select the Set Up
Your Hard Disk Option. MaxBlast checks for the existence of
Windows 2000 SP3 or XP SP1 and installs the EnableBigLBA (Logical
Block Addressing) patch into the Windows Registry. Windows should
now be able to properly support partitions larger than 137 GB created
in MaxBlast.
Installing the latest Service Pack without subsequently running the Set Up
Your Hard Disk Option in the MaxBlast application will not fully enable
large drive support and may lead to data loss.
If you do not have one of the operating systems listed above, Maxtor
recommends that you upgrade your operating system or try one of the
solutions listed below.
Formatting the Hard Drive
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