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Pincho Paxton
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I have just bought a Maxtor Diamond Max 10 SATA. I have an old IDE drive running windows XP Pro. I have installed Windows XP Pro on the SATA drive but it does not Boot up. I just get a black screen.

Windows recognises the SATA drive if I boot with the IDE drive. It allows me to use the SATA drive for storing files. The drive seems to work OK apart from booting up on its own.

I have an ASROCK K8 Upgrade NF3 Motherboard. It requires no SATA drivers. It doesn't supply any. I have no SATA drivers at all. I have a Maxblast 4 disk which I got from Maxtor, but that does not boot up either. I seem to be getting a few boot problems overall.

Any ideas?

Pincho.

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John Y
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Posted: 20th Dec 2005 14:37
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Have you set the motherboard to boot up off the SATA drive?


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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 20th Dec 2005 15:30 Edited at: 20th Dec 2005 15:31
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Yes. Just get a black screen. Drive light goes out. No action attempted.

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Do you have to enter a special SATA utility for your drives. On my motherboard I have an nVidia ROM and a Silicon Image ROM. To use the drives I have to make sure that they are setup by pressing F10 at boot time.

I have RAID SATA II though, so just using one drive may not need this. Just an idea....


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is it master?, was it partioned with a mountable partition?, all I can think of at the mo.



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JimB
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Posted: 20th Dec 2005 18:34 Edited at: 20th Dec 2005 18:37
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All Sata drives are masters.
Have you used the Maxtor utilty to format your drive?

BTW check you bios for priority like First boot i.e Sata/Pata.
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Pincho Paxton
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I can't get the Maxtor utility to work. I have partitioned my drive using windows XP Pro installer.

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Posted: 20th Dec 2005 19:12 Edited at: 20th Dec 2005 19:13
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http://www.hothardware.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=18&threadid=22321&enterthread=y

I don`t think using the XP installer works straight off (disclaimer...I have never used Sata myself, so just guessing) .



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Quote: "I can't get the Maxtor utility to work. I have partitioned my drive using windows XP Pro installer."


I had a Maxtor Diamond 9 drive and when I tried to use the Maxtor utility I could'nt get it to work at first,I had to use the utility program to make a kind of boot disk on a floppy then insert both the floppy and the cd(it came with the drive) then set the bios to boot from the cd drive and restart the comp.
The floppy seemed to contain the Aspi drivers for the cd rom drive.
I hope this makes some sort of sense
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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 21st Dec 2005 00:53
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Ok I'll try both disks at the same time.

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any luck so far?, hope you get it sorted



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I could not boot my PC up i made but swapping the SATA cables with new ones made it work.
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Pincho Paxton
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I have sorted it.

Maxblast only works on an unpartitioned drive. So I had to load XP Install, and remove the partitions that I had made earlier. Then it works. Now I have everything working smoothly.

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