- Problem with new 500GB drive
- Posted by mark on February 24th, 2006
Just bought a new 500GB Maxtor S-ATA 3.5" internal drive. Put it in the my
PC and open up Partition Magic 8.0 to create partition/format etc.
However, as soon as I try to create a partition my system freezes and I have
to shutdown. Any ideas?
- Posted by Peter on February 24th, 2006
Don't use Partition Magic. Use OS native tools to partition/format. Make
sure your PC/OS can handle 500GB drives properly.
- Posted by mark on February 24th, 2006
"Peter" <peterfoxghost@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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I've tried the windows disk management, tried MaxBlast. Both produce the
same freeze. Running XP SP2, I have 4 other drives in the same system all
over 200GB
- Posted by Peter on February 24th, 2006
"mark" <mark@localhost.net> wrote in message
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Whats your motherboard model? BIOS version/date?
Exactly at what point freeze occurs when you try to use disk management in
XP SP2?
- Posted by User on February 24th, 2006
"mark" <mark@localhost.net> wrote:
Are your 4 other drives IDE (PATA) or SATA like your new one? Sounds
like a problem with your SATA controller or SATA to IDE controller if
that's what you have.
- Posted by mark on February 24th, 2006
"Peter" <peterfoxghost@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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Motherboard is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Ultra PCI-E (Socket 939)
It freezes as soon as disk management starts to initialize the disk ready
for partitioning.
- Posted by mark on February 24th, 2006
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The other 4 drives are a mixture, 2 S-ATA, 2 IDE. Motherboard has 8 S-ATA
ports, 2 controllers. I connected the new drive to the same controller as
the other 2 S-ATA drives.
- Posted by Peter on February 24th, 2006
You didn't say what BIOS version/date you have.
I suspect that your BIOS might be too old to handle drives >300GB.
Try newest BIOS.
- Posted by mark on February 24th, 2006
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I've updated to the very latest revision 1B and I still get the same :-(
- Posted by Bob Knowlden on February 25th, 2006
Here's one idea: some Maxtor 300 Gb (sometimes called SATA II) drives have
had trouble with nForce 4 mainboards. There may be a firmware fix for your
drive.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/m...i=&p_topview=1
(Link may wrap.)
Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
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- Posted by mark on February 25th, 2006
"Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@comcast.net> wrote in message
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thanks! the serial number of my drive is listed on that table, however, it's
an OEM drive. they say if you have an OEM drive contact your OEM
manufacturer
- Posted by Bob Knowlden on February 25th, 2006
There are a few "reviews" of the drive at www.newegg.com. Newegg sells a
bare (OEM) version. Apparently a couple of the purchasers contacted Maxtor
for the firmware update, and received it.
I think that the wording on the site I provided the link for is misleading.
If you bought a bare (OEM) drive, Maxtor is your only source of support. If
it was OEM as part of a system (such as from Dell), then the PC maker would
be expected to support it. From what you write, you must be in the former
category.
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