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MAXTOR ATA HARD DRIVE 

INSTALLATION GUIDE

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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.

Select your installation scenario:

– New system with boot drive installation or replacing a failed boot drive in an 

existing system. Depending on your operating system, see “Installing a New 
Boot Drive (Windows 98, Me)” on page 15, or “Installing a New Boot Drive 
(Windows 2000, XP)” on page 17.

– 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 19.

– Existing system with original boot drive and you want to use your new hard 

drive as additional storage only. See “Installing an Additional Storage Drive 
or Replacement Boot Drive (Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP)” on page 19.

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 PCI card with 48 bit BIOS or 
Maxtor SATA/150 and ATA/133 Combo 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 21 for more 
information

.

Some system BIOSes incorporate a quick 
boot feature that automatically changes 
the boot sequence to boot from a hard 
disk with a valid boot partition. After 
formatting a drive with MaxBlast, it may 
be necessary for you to change the boot 
sequence in the system BIOS to boot from 
the Windows CD. 

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