New Maxtor HDD

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Is it possible to setup this new drive in an external firewire enclosure, or
do I need to pull the secondary drive in my PC?
I only want to set this up as additional storage in the firewire enclosure.

I got the maxblast software running but got a popup that "a version of
windows may be present Maxtor recommends you use the windows version." I
tried to continue anyway, and it would not recognize my drive.

So I tried to install to windows, but the result was it wanted to remove
maxblast but pointed to my CD-ROM drive. device not ready etc.
I tried windows add remove it also tried to remove the program from my CD
drive

WD drives went in the enclosure with no problem and then I used disk
management to format and assign a drive letter.

Alright; ready for a new learning experience.

Thanks
Bob

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Thanks Tom:
I couldn't figure out why I needed to use Maxblast from the beginning, but I
wanted to follow the instructions.
Formatting as I write.

Bob

"Tom Scales" <tom@scalesfamily.com> wrote in message
news:QU2Bd.1583$6i.902@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> Should work fine in an enclosure. Just use Windows to partition and
> format it, not maxblast.
>
> Tom
> "Leanin' Cedar" <Nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:a21Bd.7651$qf5.187@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>> Is it possible to setup this new drive in an external firewire enclosure,
>> or
>> do I need to pull the secondary drive in my PC?
>> I only want to set this up as additional storage in the firewire
>> enclosure.
>>
>> I got the maxblast software running but got a popup that "a version of
>> windows may be present Maxtor recommends you use the windows version." I
>> tried to continue anyway, and it would not recognize my drive.
>>
>> So I tried to install to windows, but the result was it wanted to remove
>> maxblast but pointed to my CD-ROM drive. device not ready etc.
>> I tried windows add remove it also tried to remove the program from my CD
>> drive
>>
>> WD drives went in the enclosure with no problem and then I used disk
>> management to format and assign a drive letter.
>>
>> Alright; ready for a new learning experience.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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Lesson learned!!!

Bob

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:41d55557.356259@nntp.charter.net...
> MaxBlast is there to deal with older operating systems where partitioning
> and
> formatting are less convenient and with BIOSes that have limitations on
> hard
> drive capacity. As far as I am concerned, MaxBlast and its ilk from other
> manufacturers are to be avoided... Ben Myers
>
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:07:34 GMT, "Leanin' Cedar" <Nospam@nospam.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Thanks Tom:
>>I couldn't figure out why I needed to use Maxblast from the beginning, but
>>I
>>wanted to follow the instructions.
>>Formatting as I write.
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>"Tom Scales" <tom@scalesfamily.com> wrote in message
>>news:QU2Bd.1583$6i.902@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
>>> Should work fine in an enclosure. Just use Windows to partition and
>>> format it, not maxblast.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>> "Leanin' Cedar" <Nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
>>> news:a21Bd.7651$qf5.187@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>>>> Is it possible to setup this new drive in an external firewire
>>>> enclosure,
>>>> or
>>>> do I need to pull the secondary drive in my PC?
>>>> I only want to set this up as additional storage in the firewire
>>>> enclosure.
>>>>
>>>> I got the maxblast software running but got a popup that "a version of
>>>> windows may be present Maxtor recommends you use the windows version."
>>>> I
>>>> tried to continue anyway, and it would not recognize my drive.
>>>>
>>>> So I tried to install to windows, but the result was it wanted to
>>>> remove
>>>> maxblast but pointed to my CD-ROM drive. device not ready etc.
>>>> I tried windows add remove it also tried to remove the program from my
>>>> CD
>>>> drive
>>>>
>>>> WD drives went in the enclosure with no problem and then I used disk
>>>> management to format and assign a drive letter.
>>>>
>>>> Alright; ready for a new learning experience.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>