Maxtor 300G HD and XP installation

[billy]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Hi, hope you can help.

Ive just finished building my new system, which has a
single sparkling new Maxtor Diamondmax 300G Sata hard
drive.

I attempted to install my new retailed XP (No SP) home,
but after the stage where it formats the drive, I can no
longer access the disk.

Basically the Bios comes up and does not detect it
anymore.

If I turn the machine off physically I get a flash on
screen that says its identified. Then I go through a
whole process of waiting to be told
"disk read error" and told to CTR ALT DEL. Which does
exactly the same again.

Any ideas. I googled and tried to find help but only got
some vague stuff. Unfortunately it was a bit over my head.

Any basic answer would be appreciated. Because Ive been
building myself up for my new machines launch, and I dont
want to have to go and put a 2nd smaller hard drive in.

Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Did you load the mobo sata chip set drivers?
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi, hope you can help.
>
>Ive just finished building my new system, which has a
>single sparkling new Maxtor Diamondmax 300G Sata hard
>drive.
>
>I attempted to install my new retailed XP (No SP) home,
>but after the stage where it formats the drive, I can no
>longer access the disk.
>
>Basically the Bios comes up and does not detect it
>anymore.
>
>If I turn the machine off physically I get a flash on
>screen that says its identified. Then I go through a
>whole process of waiting to be told
>"disk read error" and told to CTR ALT DEL. Which does
>exactly the same again.
>
>Any ideas. I googled and tried to find help but only got
>some vague stuff. Unfortunately it was a bit over my
head.
>
>Any basic answer would be appreciated. Because Ive been
>building myself up for my new machines launch, and I
dont
>want to have to go and put a 2nd smaller hard drive in.
>
>Thanks in advance
>.
>

 

[billy]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Hi,

I dont get the option to do that. I have a Epoch board with the 250 chipset.

However, when I connect the HD to the SATA port, the bios still shows it as
an IDE Master after my 2 cd and dvd drives.

The driver disk that come with the board does not allow me to load anything.

Cheers


Billy

"Treeman" wrote:

> Did you load the mobo sata chip set drivers?
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi, hope you can help.
> >
> >Ive just finished building my new system, which has a
> >single sparkling new Maxtor Diamondmax 300G Sata hard
> >drive.
> >
> >I attempted to install my new retailed XP (No SP) home,
> >but after the stage where it formats the drive, I can no
> >longer access the disk.
> >
> >Basically the Bios comes up and does not detect it
> >anymore.
> >
> >If I turn the machine off physically I get a flash on
> >screen that says its identified. Then I go through a
> >whole process of waiting to be told
> >"disk read error" and told to CTR ALT DEL. Which does
> >exactly the same again.
> >
> >Any ideas. I googled and tried to find help but only got
> >some vague stuff. Unfortunately it was a bit over my
> head.
> >
> >Any basic answer would be appreciated. Because Ive been
> >building myself up for my new machines launch, and I
> dont
> >want to have to go and put a 2nd smaller hard drive in.
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >.
> >
>