I'm thinking you still may need the controller driver.
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:
| Well,
|
| I've just learned from Western Digital Tech support that
| the Smart Error code 0159 output from the Western digital
| diagnostic tools means the drive must be replaced. While
| that sounds good, I still don't know why the Maxtor drive
| does not work in this system.
|
| -Jan
|
| (e-mail address removed) (Jan) wrote in message
| > I've now done more things which have not helped the
| > problem:
| >
| > I low-level formatted the drive with zeros using
| > the utility provided on the Maxtor diagnostic boot floppy.
| > Afterwards, the drive checks out just fine according to
| > the diagnostics. I'm using the most recent Abit bios, and I also
| > unplugged the power cord and reset the bios via jumper.
| > With the newly formatted Maxtor drive, a simple old PCI
| > video card (S3 I think) and no other PCI devices, I then
| > tried a new win2k install from CD, and pressed F7 during the
| > initial part where it tells you to press F6 (according to the
| > article located at
| >
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q237/5/56.ASP
| >
| > Unfortunately, when it gets to the point of formatting the
| > drive with NTFS, it just hangs at 0% formatted, even if I leave
| > it for half an hour. I then tried the same procedure, except
| > NOT pressing F7. The system still hangs at format.
| >
| > It's interesting that this exact machine was running just fine
| > a week earlier with WindowsNT4.
| >
| > Thanks for all your replies. Any other suggestions?
| >
| > -Jan
| >
| >
| > >Dan Seur said:
| > > Jan - I believe the WD diagnostic is dlgdiag11.zip
| > > (1.52 MB) available on the WD website, dated September,
| > > 2003. It is a floppy image, self-booting. If it finds
| > > something wrong, it may be able to repair the drive.
| > > If it can't, it will advice you to contact WD tech
| > > support, and give you (I think) most of the info they'll
| > > need to arrange a warranty replacement for you. (It's
| > > possible that you'll have to remove the drive to get
| > > some serial or part number on a label.)
| > >
| > > Go to
www.westerndigital.com
| > > go to the "support" scrolldown tab up top
| > > click on "downloads library"
| > > scroll down that page to "diagnostic utilities"
| > > "digdiag11.zip" is the first entry of the 3 on that list.
| > > You can do the download/unzip-to-floppy on any machine.
| > >
| > > You may want to chat with a WD tech support person anyway.
| > > It's possible there's some sort of small WD routine (or
| > > something else) in the MBR of that drive that's getting
| > > in the way. If so, their tech support will recognize
| > > your situation quickly.
| > >
| > >
| > > Jan wrote:
| > > > Ok, I did three things without it solving the problem:
| > > >
| > > > 1. I went to the Abit website (this board is an Abit KT7A)
| > > > and downloaded the IDE controller driver. I then put the files on a
| > > > floppy, and F6'd during the install and attempted to request the
| > > > Win2k install to use this new driver for the IDE controller.
| > > > Unfortunetly the setup comes back and says it can't find the
| > > > "txtsetup.oem" file. I looked through all the files on the floppy
and
| > > > there is no txtsetup.oem file.
| > > > It appears the drivers I downloaded are only for installing after
| > > > Win2k is intalled, as I see only setup.exe files and accessory files
| > > > in the download.
| > > >
| > > > 2. I used a win98 boot floppy and fdisk'd the drive to delete all
| > > > partitions. Then I did an fdisk /MBR and rebooted. I still get
"disk
| > > > is damaged" at the end of the NTFS format step.
| > > >
| > > > 3. I downloaded the only "utility" disk available on the western
| > > > digital website, and it has lots of tools for setting up a WD drive,
| > > > including formatting a disk. I could not find a utility for
checking
| > > > the drive, although the hard drive information seemed to see the
disk
| > > > correctly and nothing seemed unusual. Even using the format utility
| > > > from this diskette for NTFS, then attempting an install from the w2k
| > > > disk, I get blue screen shortly after it starts to copy files to the
| > > > hard drive.
| > > >
| > > > I've done some checking on other groups, and a few have similar
| > > > problems as this, but I have not seen any solutions.
| > > >
| > > > Any other suggestions?
| > > >
| > > > -Jan
| > > >
| > > >
| > > >>"philo said:
| > > >>| > > >>
| > > >>>Hello,
| > > >>>
| > > >>>I had a NT4 workstation running smoothly on a machine with a 40 GB
| > > >>>Western Digital IDE drive, with 2 NTFS partitions.
| > > >>>The bios sees the correct size of the drive.
| > > >>>I wanted to install a fresh install of Windows 2000. I therefore
| > > >>>booted from the W2k disk, and during the install went through the
| > > >>>procedure to delete all the old NT4 NTFS partitions. I quit the
| > > >>>install, then rebooted.
| > > >>>Rebooted from the W2k disk, went
| > > >>>to create a new 20GB partition, but at the end of the format I get
the
| > > >>>error that it can't format because the "disk may be damaged". I
even
| > > >>>tried formatting a smaller partition, one that was 10 and one that
was
| > > >>>7.5. Nothing works and always ends up with the "damaged disk"
error.
| > > >>>I downloaded a setup utility from the Western Digital website, and
it
| > > >>>gave me the options of reformatting for w2k. I did that, then
| > > >>>rebooted from the W2k disk and this time did not format, but rather
| > > >>>just installed. It bluescreened quickly.
| > > >>
| > > >>
| > > >>
| > > >>WD should have a diagnostic that you can run on the drive...
| > > >>maybe the drive is bad
