Dear All

I had my A8N-SLI Deluxe running with (occasional freezes) a
Dual GPUs in SLI Mode
single MAXTOR 200GB SATA (Boot) connecting to NV-SATA1
single MAXTOR 200GB IDE

Computer froze and since then I get Invalid boot disk error, no matter what
I try I cannot get it to boot from the SATA drive.

the recovery console (from CDROM) can recognise the drive and log me into
the partition. Everything appears to be there.

I gave up and went to reinstall windows back on the drive and got the
following error after the selecting the partition.

This drive does not contain a windows XP-compatible partition

I installed another MAXTOR 200GB Sata drive in nvraid1 and started the
install again it recognised the drive, partitioned it then gave me the same
error as soon as I selected the partition..

My system bios is 1009

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

BIOS 1009 ???...

You may have a look to
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...&st=0&p=26746&
it seems there are problems with maxtor drives.

"NEWS" <(E-Mail Removed)> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Dear All
>
> I had my A8N-SLI Deluxe running with (occasional freezes) a
> Dual GPUs in SLI Mode
> single MAXTOR 200GB SATA (Boot) connecting to NV-SATA1
> single MAXTOR 200GB IDE
>
> Computer froze and since then I get Invalid boot disk error, no matter
> what I try I cannot get it to boot from the SATA drive.
>
> the recovery console (from CDROM) can recognise the drive and log me into
> the partition. Everything appears to be there.
>
> I gave up and went to reinstall windows back on the drive and got the
> following error after the selecting the partition.
>
> This drive does not contain a windows XP-compatible partition
>
> I installed another MAXTOR 200GB Sata drive in nvraid1 and started the
> install again it recognised the drive, partitioned it then gave me the
> same error as soon as I selected the partition..
>
> My system bios is 1009
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>

Thanks

BIOS 1009 was a typo I meant BIOS 1006

I was a little surprised at this apparent incompatibility, I mean the SLI
Deluxe has been around for a few months, and the MAXTORs aren't exactly new.
Although the pricing in australia has just hit Gigabyte/A$ sweet spot, maybe
nobody was buying them ( all they checked it out prior to purchase).

I reckon it is annoying how the drive is recognised right until windows
setup formats the drive as NTFS.

"Christian PRIEUR" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> BIOS 1009 ???...

>

> You may have a look to

> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...&st=0&p=26746&

> it seems there are problems with maxtor drives.

"NEWS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:FyJ9e.7511$(E-Mail Removed):

> Dear All
>
> I had my A8N-SLI Deluxe running with (occasional freezes) a
> Dual GPUs in SLI Mode
> single MAXTOR 200GB SATA (Boot) connecting to NV-SATA1
> single MAXTOR 200GB IDE
>
> Computer froze and since then I get Invalid boot disk error, no matter
> what I try I cannot get it to boot from the SATA drive.
>
> the recovery console (from CDROM) can recognise the drive and log me
> into the partition. Everything appears to be there.
>
> I gave up and went to reinstall windows back on the drive and got the
> following error after the selecting the partition.
>
> This drive does not contain a windows XP-compatible partition
>
> I installed another MAXTOR 200GB Sata drive in nvraid1 and started the
> install again it recognised the drive, partitioned it then gave me the
> same error as soon as I selected the partition..
>
> My system bios is 1009
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
>

Email Maxtor. I have a DiamondMax10 300GB SATA that would not be
recongized sometimes during POST. I submitted a question via the Maxtor
web page, and the next day they emailed me new firmware for the drive. I
now have no problems...

Apparently this can be a common problem.
The fix is to contact Maxtor, and they should send you a new firmware for
your hd.

"NEWS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:FyJ9e.7511$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Dear All
>
> I had my A8N-SLI Deluxe running with (occasional freezes) a
> Dual GPUs in SLI Mode
> single MAXTOR 200GB SATA (Boot) connecting to NV-SATA1
> single MAXTOR 200GB IDE
>
> Computer froze and since then I get Invalid boot disk error, no matter
> what I try I cannot get it to boot from the SATA drive.
>
> the recovery console (from CDROM) can recognise the drive and log me into
> the partition. Everything appears to be there.
>
> I gave up and went to reinstall windows back on the drive and got the
> following error after the selecting the partition.
>
> This drive does not contain a windows XP-compatible partition
>
> I installed another MAXTOR 200GB Sata drive in nvraid1 and started the
> install again it recognised the drive, partitioned it then gave me the
> same error as soon as I selected the partition..
>
> My system bios is 1009
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>