Operating System Requirements; Back Up Your Data; Important Notice For Drives Larger Than 137 Gb; Installing The Drive With An Ultra/Ata Pci Card - Maxtor ATA Hard Drive Installation Manual

Back Up Your Data

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Protect your data by backing up existing hard drives before installing
your new Maxtor hard drive.

Important Notice for Drives Larger than 137 GB

System User Manual
Windows 98, Me, 2000 (before Service Pack 3), and XP (before Service
Pack 1) operating systems do not properly support the full capacity of an
internal drive larger than 137 GB. See "Using a Drive Larger than 137 GB"
on page 25 for more information.

Installing the Drive with an Ultra/ATA PCI Card

If you are installing this hard drive with an Ultra/ATA PCI adapter card,
Operating System
use the ATA card documentation to install the card before installing the
CD and Boot Disk
hard drive. Some older systems require the use of an ATA card to fully
recognize higher capacity hard drives.
Philips Screwdriver
Small Needle-Nose Pliers
Figure 2. Required Tools
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