Bought a new Maxtor 40gb and can't get pc to recognize it.

[MuffD]

I have tried every jumper setting and every cable setting. I even tried different cables as well. I then tried a different drive and that worked fine.
Computer is a PIII 500 with an Abit board. The drive currently being used is a 15gb Maxtor.
I couldn't even auto detect it in the bios. Also, when the pc boots up with the 40 gigger, it just hangs at where it should show the make/model of the device.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

does it work on any other computer? it might be dead.

 

[woodie1]

40gigs may be more than your motherboard is able to handle. Did the drive come with any installation software? I think you may need to use Maxtor's utilities to get your rig to properly detect it. The software will fool the motherboard into thinking the drive is smaller and you should be good to go.

 

[amdskip]

Are you hooking this up on the same channel as another hard drive? If so, try hooking it up just but itself to see what happens.

 

[MuffD]

I haven't tried the software that came with the drive. I usually just boot to DOS and fdisk/format it from there so maybe I can try that.

The drive is not dead because I tried it on another computer and it works okay.

AMDskip, the drive is the sole device on the first channel.

 

[jacktesterson]

do you know if your bios is capable of handling 40 GB?

I had a ECS K7VZA and before upgrading the BIOS It would only take up to 40GB....after it was 160GB

just an example

 

[DurocShark]

I had an old Aristo BX board that wouldn't recognize anything over 36gig. I had just limited success with Maxtor's MaxBLAST software (which is downloadable from their website, btw). Gave up and finally just got a new mobo. 😉