Make certain that the jumpers are set properly, that the cables are connected properly (Data and Power) and that the BIOS can identify the drive. Understand that many of the OLDER motherboards have a BIOS that cannot properly deal with larger disks.
This was a 6.4 GB hard drive.
MaxBlast is a utility that comes with Maxtor branded hard drives that assists in the installation of a new hard drive. The MaxBlast utility will partition and format a drive, and/or install drive overlay software if your computer's BIOS is too old to recognize hard drives over a certain size.
Your maxtor 3200 Likely has a bad sector.
Yes but it has to be formated as Fat32. By Default it is NFTS
Free Maxtor hard drive recovery software can be found on reputable software download websites, such as CNET's Download.com or Softonic. It's important to ensure that the software is from a trusted source to avoid malware or other security risks. Additionally, Maxtor may offer official recovery software on their website for certain models of their hard drives.
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A brand new hard drive must be formatted for any operating system to recognize it. You should have some kind of utility program to format a new hard drive that came with your operating system.
The hard drive stores the Operating System. Like for example : Windows XP or Windows Vista or even Windows 7 without the hard drive your computer will not turn on.
windows should automaticly recognize your slave drive and run it as the next available letter drive for example i have a 2tb hard drive partitioned to c, d, and e. i then have my DVD drive named f. with the remaining unallocated space (not formated to a recognizable state) i partitioned to g,h,i,j and my 500gb harddrive comes up as my k drive.
Windows XP has no bearing on the hard drive size beyond what is needed to store it. Thus a hard drive on which Windows XP is installed can be anywhere from 1.5 GB to 3 TB.
Yes you can have the Mac OS on one drive and Windows on another drive. Or you can partition a single hard drive and have both on the same drive.
You can certainly move Windows to an external hard drive but Windows will not boot directly from an external drive. If you are running Windows in Parallels (See links below) you can have Parallels installed on the Mac's drive and then have your Windows virtual machine on the external drive.