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To: Bob Pittsfield who wrote (47839)	10/4/2005 12:20:05 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Bob, First of all, I'd establish that the new one boots by trying it as the only drive. Then when you experiment you'll know that you've got a valid bootable new drive. I'd hook it up to the cable the old one was using. Some drives need to have the jumpers set on cable select, rather than master or slave, although I must confess I don't remember when. I just know I messed with the jumpers for a while before my new hard drive would work properly. New drives often come with disk utility software, including a zero out format. You can use this to format your old drive. Or go to a disk drive manufacturer's web site and download one. It will have you make a floppy to boot from. Esteban