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H'lo, I know this has probably been discussed before but I didn't get
any answers to my inquiries regarding new procedures. As my subject
suggests, I want to buy a 160 gigger from Maxtor at Staples this week
and add it as I do a lot of recording and save some large files from
the Net. Now, how do I go about adding this 2nd drive without a lot of
problemas. Do I have to add that patch from that Robert guy that helps
the OS to recognize 48bit is it drives, or update bios, which I have
tried a million times, but ACER support didn't cooperate with, or when
I buy the Maxtor retail drive it comes with a MAXmagic software thingie
that assists you to fdisk and partition etc.
If there is a simple procedure that has been tried and tested that
works, please enlighten me. I think there are some workarounds from
some of the messages I have unearthed from past discussions, but
realize that a lot of these issues have been resolved over the past few
years with the introduction of these large drives, 160 and up. One
thing I did notice was that 137 gig was a plateau of some sort and
Windows 98SE didn't take kindly to some sort of partition size, and
finally something about using Maxmagic to partition drives, in advanced
form, and making them only about 60 or 80 gig, esp. for defragging
which will have to be done eventually. Anyway, enough inquiring, please
assist me and thanks for listening, Derrick
H'lo, I know this has probably been discussed before but I didn't get
any answers to my inquiries regarding new procedures. As my subject
suggests, I want to buy a 160 gigger from Maxtor at Staples this week
and add it as I do a lot of recording and save some large files from
the Net. Now, how do I go about adding this 2nd drive without a lot of
problemas. Do I have to add that patch from that Robert guy that helps
the OS to recognize 48bit is it drives, or update bios, which I have
tried a million times, but ACER support didn't cooperate with, or when
I buy the Maxtor retail drive it comes with a MAXmagic software thingie
that assists you to fdisk and partition etc.
If there is a simple procedure that has been tried and tested that
works, please enlighten me. I think there are some workarounds from
some of the messages I have unearthed from past discussions, but
realize that a lot of these issues have been resolved over the past few
years with the introduction of these large drives, 160 and up. One
thing I did notice was that 137 gig was a plateau of some sort and
Windows 98SE didn't take kindly to some sort of partition size, and
finally something about using Maxmagic to partition drives, in advanced
form, and making them only about 60 or 80 gig, esp. for defragging
which will have to be done eventually. Anyway, enough inquiring, please
assist me and thanks for listening, Derrick