Maxtor 80 w\133 card won't fully install in XP. Help a brotha out!

[nitrousninja]

It says that I need a "boot disk" for the EZMax install but I'm running XP and dont have one. I thought boot disks were for 98 only? The card installed fine and the drive shows up in hardware section but not in "my computer" and when I look at the properties of it nothing is listed but XP says it is working properly. I have it hooked to the 133 card on IDE1 and set to master. Any suggestions? I won't be able to load Morrowind until this thing gets working!

 

[ElFenix]

did you format it and assign it a drive letter via the disk management panel? you have to do that.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

excellent advice ElFenix ..bootdisk? try http://www.bootdisk.com

 

[nitrousninja]

XP doesnt "see" the HDD in the disk mgmt mode. Only in Properties section. Which boot disk should I use for the install because there are three of them . Thanks for the reply. I'm just worried that if I get the wrong one it'll screw something up.

 

[BD231]

All you have to do is asign the drive a letter dude. Boot up a fresh install of XP, and when it ask you which drive to set-up on, just select your 80gig (should be under"un partiond space"), and setup a partion.

 

[vetteguy]

Ok...here are some options for you. (I just bought this drive so I went through this)

If you're doing a fresh install, go into the BIOS and select "SCSI Boot Device" (or whatever your mobo calls it) as the secondary boot device (since you'll be booting off the CD to install Windows). On another PC (or before you reinstall) copy the files from the Maxblast CD to a floppy...there should be an "XP-something" directory (copy the whole directory), then copy something like "txt.oem" and ultra.inf (I wish I had the CD here to tell you, but you'll see the files I mean. The ones you don't need are the language files). WHen you boot off the XP CD, press F6 to specify a third party RAID driver, and insert the disk you just made. It will then see the drive and you'll be able to install to it.

If you're using it as a secondary disk, you should be able to install the Ultra133 drivers right from the Maxblast CD. Windows should then be able to see the volume in Storage Manager.

Just a word of warning...I did the first setup, and my boot time into Windows was incredibly SLOW. (Over a minute to boot). I took out the card and am running it off my ATA100 bus, and it boots in less than 20 seconds. I don't know what the difference is, but since the 133 doesn't really buy you anything, if you like a fast boot I'd stick it on the mobo. Hope this helps.

 

[nitrousninja]

I forgot to mention that I am ADDING this to an existing system I should have done that. The goofy thing that XP already sees it in the properties section but not in disk mgmt. The Maxtor site might as well be about 17th century Hungarian cabinet making for all the help it has. I can't even find my model on thier site.

 

[John]

I came across this on HardOCP since I was having the SAME problem yesterday.



<< I've got the same maxtor drives (d740x) on raid. If you set it to 133 in the Raid bios it wont boot but if i set it to ultra100 it will boot. It's and XP problem. I dual boot with 2000 and no problem.

When i get into xp on ultra 100, check the raid program it shows ultra133.

IT's XP not the MB >>



XP would format and partition the array, then copy files. Upon reboot it would run setup again and refuse to boot to the array. Setting the drives to ata 100 does indeed fix the boot problem.

 

[Pabster]

Just grab the drivers @ maxtor.com and throw 'em on a floppy. When XP setup asks "Do you want to install a third-party SCSI or RAID controller, Press F6" do it. It'll load the drivers off the floppy and allow access to the drive(s) on that ATA/133 PCI card. Alternatively, if you are booting off another drive and can't "see" anything on the ATA/133 card (because the driver is not loaded), you'll need to boot off the other drive and install the driver before trying to do anything with the drive(s) on the PCI card.