maxtor drives are whiney.

i have one right now, and it's annoying as hell.

going to bump it down to a usb backup drive soon.


put your new drive on the same ide ribbon as the system drive. set
the system drive jumpers to master, and the 2nd drive to slave. then
format the drive. new letters in "my computer" will appear for every
new partition. so if you partition the drive into 4, you will then
have 5 drives in your "my computer" section of your os. 1 original +
4 new

the letters will be C, D, E, F but might skip a letter if it's still
calling the cd rom E.
your system drive will stay C, the new one(s) will be the new letters.