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HumanSpyder

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Hello. I have a computer running XP S2 with a Gigabyte nForce3 motherboard and AMD 64 3000. My bootdisk is a Western Digital 160GB SATA (Caviar I think).
I tried to install a Maxtor 300GB (16mb cache) SATA drive. I tried to initialize it with Disk Management but that got an error after which the drive (Drive 1) stopped showing up on the Disk Management. So I used MaxBlast 4 which was bundled with the drive. After that the drive showed up in Device Manager but not in Disk Management or My Computer. It also causes my CPU to run at close to 100% for some reason. My computer works fine with the drive removed.
After playing around and not being able to get it to work I exchanged it for another new one of the same model. I tried initializing and partitioning with MaxBlast again but got the same problem. Using the Hard Disk Info tool in MaxBlast, I noticed that there are no partitions listed on that drive even though I specificially formatted the disk as one 300 GB partition using MaxBlast.

Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Any help would be appreciated.
 
I don't have any SATA drives, but I set up one for a coworker a while back. Did you go into the BIOS and enable the SATA channel being used? I had to do something similar when I did his machine (it's been a couple months, so it's not fresh in my mind).
 
I can see that you have activated SATA on the mobo because you already had that as a boot drive. So, we are talking about adding a 2nd SATA drive.

I don't know how that mobo works, but my ASUS P4PE will not allow SATA drives not RAIDED. Make sure that is not the case. To do what you want to do, I would have to create two RAID 0 arrays - one for each drive. Yeah - silly. But that's the nature of the board.

Check your mobo manual carefully. What I ended up doing was to disable the two on board ports and put in a 2-port SATA PCI card w/o RAID, and that was a walk in the park.
 
I've never had to do a RAID setup before. Corkyg, would I have to reformat both my harddrives since I think they are both basic disks right now and not dynamic?
Thanks.
 
I was looking at my mobo manual and found this:

"nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb/250 Ultra (SATA0_SB,
SATA1_SB)"
"Supports data transfer rate of up to 150 MB/s"

Im not sure if the 250 is a size limit or what. But I know one problem is that I have to change the jumper to 150 mb/s instead of 300.
 
Originally posted by: HumanSpyder
I've never had to do a RAID setup before. Corkyg, would I have to reformat both my harddrives since I think they are both basic disks right now and not dynamic? Thanks.
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Not sdure what that means - I have gone from RAID 0 to no RAID to RAID 1 and never reformatted the basic SATA drive. It is my data drive - no OS on it.

 
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