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To: Ally who wrote (16853)	2/25/2001 4:05:29 PM
From: Investor2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

I've installed a Maxtor hard drive (10 Gig) in a Pentium 150 mhz Micron computer and it went well. (This is what prompted my earlier question to mark: "Don't most hard drives come with installation software that automatically copies the old hard drive is to the new one?") The Maxtor installation software cloned my old hard drive to the new one. It also inserted some kind a program in the bios called "Easy Bios" which faked the computer out into accepting the large hard drive. I'm not a computer expert, and the whole thing scared me when it was going on. But it all turned out well. Best wishes, I2