I managed to fix this problem, but I'm posting anyway in case others find something similar happen to them.
I have a Maxtor 160 Ultra. I wanted to run it as the slave drive to capture vids onto it, so I hooked up my 40GB as master and tossed this one on as slave. At first, the comp wouldn't even turn on again. Only after taking everything apart did it start again, but when I hooked it all up, it wouldn't start...again.
So I took everything apart (2nd time), cleared cmos, and had it boot. THis time, I did a check boot after installing every PCI card and every drive (2 optical, 2 HDD, 1 FDD).
The drive wouldn't show up under Windows.
Booted from the 160, would freeze partially into boot. Booted from 40GB again, 160 shows up as a RAW partition.
Boot from 160 2nd time, everything works.
So I try having the 40GB as master and the 160 as slave again, same old RAW data problem. Do a full HDD check with Powmax, no problem at all. Still no go. Do low level format. Still no go.
I notice now that both Bios and Windows reports the 160GB to be a 31GB drive. Do some thinking, and I switch the jumper on it from Slave to Cable Select.
After boot, both Bios and Windows detected this as a 160GB drive, and I could proceed by formatting it into NTFS. It has worked well since.
Interesting regarding the jumper, huh? 😀
I have a Maxtor 160 Ultra. I wanted to run it as the slave drive to capture vids onto it, so I hooked up my 40GB as master and tossed this one on as slave. At first, the comp wouldn't even turn on again. Only after taking everything apart did it start again, but when I hooked it all up, it wouldn't start...again.
So I took everything apart (2nd time), cleared cmos, and had it boot. THis time, I did a check boot after installing every PCI card and every drive (2 optical, 2 HDD, 1 FDD).
The drive wouldn't show up under Windows.
Booted from the 160, would freeze partially into boot. Booted from 40GB again, 160 shows up as a RAW partition.
Boot from 160 2nd time, everything works.
So I try having the 40GB as master and the 160 as slave again, same old RAW data problem. Do a full HDD check with Powmax, no problem at all. Still no go. Do low level format. Still no go.
I notice now that both Bios and Windows reports the 160GB to be a 31GB drive. Do some thinking, and I switch the jumper on it from Slave to Cable Select.
After boot, both Bios and Windows detected this as a 160GB drive, and I could proceed by formatting it into NTFS. It has worked well since.
Interesting regarding the jumper, huh? 😀
