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> Try to read the capacity of the drive as the HDR boots up. Soundslike
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> the HDR is not reading the drive capacity correctly, and this canhappen
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> when the drive is read as a user defined size rather than thru theauto
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> setting. Sometimes, you even have to go move the bios setting offauto
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> then back on, and then reboot. No idea why.This is an MDR, not an HDR, so there's no monitor to watch while it's
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> Also, new Maxtor drives come set to do some kind of write verify orbut a
\n> something for the first ten boot ups. This is no problem for PC's
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> known problem when you put these drives new right out of the boxinto an
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> HDR. With the write verify on the drives are much slower.That sounds like it could be my problem. When I put the drive into a
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> Fortunately, Maxtor has a utility on their site which can turn thisI'll probaby have tried it by the time you get back to me. I'm
\n> setting off, in other words, to the normal setting, which evidently
\n> makes it noticeably faster. You can find it at Maxtor.com
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