Arrrggghhh.....Problems installing my new Maxtor Drive, please read if you have recently installed one

[KeyserSoze]

Ok, I know it's not that hard. It's hooked up correctly, because my BIOS detects. I start the "Max Blast" program (The one that comes with the drive for formatting.) And then it goes through a few steps, comes to the screen where I pick the drive, and tell it to format. It says "Detected NTFS File System on Drive 1" (I'm using WinXP.) And this is going to be an additional drive, not a boot drive. It tells me that Max Blast can't format the drive for that (NTFS), and that I need a Windows disk or MS-DOS disk. So I create the MS-DOS startup disk from WinXP. Then I come back to the installation process, and I put it in, and it doesn't do anything.

Any ideas

Thanx in Advance



KeyserSoze

 

[edblor]

Why are you using MaxBlast anyway?

If the BIOS sees it, odds are that WinXP will as well!

After you load windows, just go into Disk Management, and format/partition the new drive!

Edblor

 

[solid]

Not sure if this helps or not, but I recently went through some issues with a Maxtor 40gig D740X-6l (i think that's the number). Anyways, I couldn't get win2000 to copy all of its files to the hard drive and I ran into tons of page-fault errors. I tried everything, even a full surface scan, and then I found my problem. RAM. If you haven't tried it, try swithing your ram with a different stick. Solved all of my hard drive problems.

-solid

 

[KeyserSoze]

Thanks for the responses.

edblor, I took your advice, and went to "Disk Management." And from there, wizards did everything to get the drive "online." Now, Windows is formatting it.

Thanks people




KeyserSoze

 

[edblor]

That's awesome🙂

Glad I could be of assistance!

Edblor

 

[earthman]

The supplied disk utilities from Maxtor are not neccesary on any fairly recent computer. I'm not even sure why they supply that stuff any more, it just causes confusion.