Installation
The SETUP program allows you to enter the types of optional hardware installed— such as the hard disk drive type, the floppy disk drive capacity, and the display adapter type. The system’s BIOS uses this information to initialize the system when the power is switched on. For instructions on how to use the SETUP program, refer to the system manual for your PC.
During the AT system CMOS setup, you must enter the drive type for the QuickView Serial ATA hard disk drives. The drive supports the translation of its physical drive geometry parameters such as cylinders, heads, and sectors per track to a logical addressing mode. The drive can work with different BIOS
You can choose any drive type that does not exceed the capacity of the drive. Table
3.8.1Big Drive Enabler (Software download)
Maxtor’s Big Drive Enabler is a one step executable that enables support for drives larger than 137 Gigabytes in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and XP Service Pack 1. This utility takes the guess work out of editing the windows registry. The Big Drive Enabler fixes an operating system limitations. This utility is needed anytime a hard drive larger than 137 GB is connected to a system’s ATA bus, regardless of any system BIOS that supports
Note: Failure to install the required service packs and install the Enabler Big LBA patch can result in data loss when accessing the hard disk beyond 137 Gigabytes. For more information regarding Windows limitations and the 137 Gigabyte barrier, please read Max- tor Knowledge Base Answer ID 960 and Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 303013.
3.8.2To use the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler,
Download big_drive_enabler.exe from the Maxtor.com website, then double click on the downloaded file to begin installation.
3.9Logical Addressing Format Specifications
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3H400F0 | SATA 300 | 16,383 | 16 | 63 | 781,422,768 | 400GB | |
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3H500F0 | SATA 300 | 16,383 | 16 | 63 | 976,773,168 | 500GB | |
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Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive |