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anyone knjow anything about those? I myself am having trouble formatting one. so do I need a specific driver? I got an nforce2 chipset based motherboard using the latest (5.10) drivers
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Is it connected directly onto your motherboard or through a addon card? Do you have any other harddrives in your system? Have you used/formatted the drive before? As far as I know SATA drives do not need any specific drivers.
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16-01-2007 19:33 |
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yup, directly. theres a sata controller integrated through the south bridge.
I have my old ata drive as a system drive.
no I haven't formatted before, it's a new drive. I HAVE tested the motherboard with an already formatted sata drive before and it worked fine
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17-01-2007 09:04 |
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Better stay away from Maxtor drives, I've had several broken harddisks and it were always Maxtors. If you want reliable fast drives try Western Digital RE-series, they are a little bit more expensive but I have never had any problems with them.
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17-01-2007 12:33 |
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Better stay away from Maxtor drives, I've had several broken harddisks and it were always Maxtors. If you want reliable fast drives try Western Digital RE-series, they are a little bit more expensive but I have never had any problems with them. |
word. Im going tomorrow morning for a wd replacement 
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17-01-2007 13:08 |
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check the firm ware as well... Maxtor had a bad bunch of them, and since i support them....... i know!!
their not so bad in the end.....
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17-01-2007 14:08 |
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17-01-2007 14:35 |
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tetsuo
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yep, you can DL from maxtor site.... They also have some diag soft that can test the drive for ya....
I think you should be able to see the FW version from the bios as well.....
let me know if you need advices... i can help.... 
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18-01-2007 12:36 |
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cynik
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u use messaging software? aim?
I decided to fiddle around with it a bit more before I take it back. so I took that maxblast 4 software from their site and made a bootable cd with it. that thing tells me its not a 200gb drive but a 136?!
ok so I formated but now windows install (service pack 2 version) hangs when its detecting a drive. moy old installation on the ata drive just won't start if the new drive is connected, it just hangs after the loading screen
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18-01-2007 13:00 |
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hhmmm no AIM, I'm at work.... blocked by proxy..
However, that doesn't sound so good that the tool show as a 136 instead os 200...
seems faulty to me.....bad block or the low level format is fucked up, and trust me, you don't want to go down that way....
Replace the drive man...
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18-01-2007 14:55 |
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boh... took it to the shop and witnessed it being formated. the sata controller on my motherboard appears to be busted. and the guarantee for the mb expired about a month ago! 
damn, I knew Id have to fork some more cash on the damn thing...
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19-01-2007 11:42 |
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tetsuo
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shit man, sorry to hear that.....
last thing, try to upgrade the firmware of the sata controller, you never know....
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19-01-2007 13:41 |
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Originally posted by tetsuo
check the firm ware as well... Maxtor had a bad bunch of them, and since i support them....... i know!!
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yea i have gotten nothing but maxtor and have never had a problem with them for years, everyone in my family. there's a good brand name.
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25-01-2007 09:22 |
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