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Making your new drive the
startup drive
Note: The system will try to default boot to your original
boot drive after cloning. You may need to change the boot
sequence in your system BIOS if you plan on re-connecting
your old drive after cloning.
1 Let your cloned drive boot into Windows
and make sure all of your les have copied
properly.
2 Restart your computer and enter the System
Setup BIOS by pressing the ESC, DEL, or F2
key during startup.
3 In the system setup, change the boot
sequence to boot from your new SATA drive.
If you have an add-in SATA card, the boot
priority may need to change to boot SCSI or
external rst. You may need to refer to your
system documentation.
Power Mac
Note: These instructions assume that you have one existing
SATA drive which you will continue to use as the boot drive,
and that you are adding your new Seagate SATA drive to
your Mac for additional storage and performance.
If you want to image your old drive to your new Seagate
SATA drive and make it bootable, review the Apple Disk
Utility help les or visit the Apple support site at
www.info.apple.com.
Installing drive as additional storage
1 Mount the drive as described in your
Macintosh product manual. Mounting screws
and cables should be supplied internally on
your Mac.
2 Boot to the Apple desktop.
3 The drive will be auto-detected by the system
and should display a message stating the
disk you inserted is not readable by the
computer. Click Initialize to open the Apple
Disk Utility window.
4 Select your new volume and click Partition.
5 Under Volume Scheme, click the drop down
menu and select a Partition option.
6 Name your volume and make sure the
default format of Mac OS Extended
(journaled) is displayed, then click Partition.
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