Installing Hard Drive As An Additional Hard Drive - Maxtor Installation Manual

After the system boots to the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer
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icon. You should see a new drive letter and icon.
Double-click the new drive letter. You should see all the files copied from your boot
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drive to your new hard drive. If all of your files appear to have copied, you will now make
the new hard drive your boot drive.
9. Shut down Windows normally and power the system off. You can now switch your
new hard drive with the old original boot drive.
10. Unplug the cables and install your new hard drive on the primary ATA/IDE cable
in the master position. Install your old hard drive on the secondary ATA/IDE
cable.
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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.
11. Power the system on.
12. At the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer icon. You will see the
newly copied boot drive as drive letter C. The old hard drive can now be used for
additional storage.

Installing Hard Drive as an Additional Hard Drive

This section gives instructions for installing your new hard drive as additional storage on a
system with an existing boot drive.
With the system turned on, insert the MaxBlast Plus II disk in the floppy drive
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and the MaxBlast Plus II CD in the CD-ROM drive.
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