Hard Drive Installation

[Digenb Butala]

I have a troubleshooting question regarding hard drive
installation.

I have a Dell 1.8 GHz Pentium running Windows XP. The
computer came with 80 Gb hard drive. I am trying to
install a second hard drive as a slave drive and keep the
original drive as a master drive. New hard drive is Maxtor
250 Gb ATA/133 (6Y250P0) drive. I am using cable select
jumpers setting. I have also installed Windows SP1 and
updated my BIOS.

BIOS shows new hard drive as a slave drive with 250Gb
capacity. I used the vendor supplied disk to partitiion
the disk (as 250 Gb drive)at boot-up. All installation
went OK until Windows start-up. Windows come up with pope-
up message saying new hardware (6Y250P0)found and new disk
found. A new hardware wizard window comes up with a
message saying that can not install hardware "required
services are not installed".

I checked the disk management and it shows healthy disk
with 250Gb partition. Windows Explorer also finds a 250 Gb
hard drive. I am able to cpopy and delete the files from
new hard drive. However, every time I restart Windows, I
get the same message ".. New device found and
then .....can not install new hardware...".

The device manager shows yellow mark on this disk drive.
Under device manager_properties_driver, the messager says
code 28 (deveice driver not installed). Under driver
details, it shows only one driver PartMag.drv. For my
other hard drive (master) it shows PartMag.drv and
disk.drv.

I have tried many things without any success in getting
rid of the ".. New device found and then .....can not
install new hardware...". message. I am not sure about how
this will effect fture integrity of my data on this drive.

Any suggestions and help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

-Digen

 

[Jim Macklin]

Use the jumper settings on both drives, you assign the
master and slave. CS is a factory assembly-line speedup.
They can set all drives to CS and then just plug them in
without worrying about jumper settings on 10,000 drives a
week.

The drivers are the same, ATA/EIDE for both drives.

I think the Maxtor software is useless or worse. Use device
manager to remove the drive, reboot and use computer
management to partition the drive, right click My Computer,
select manage....

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| I have a troubleshooting question regarding hard drive
| installation.
|
| I have a Dell 1.8 GHz Pentium running Windows XP. The
| computer came with 80 Gb hard drive. I am trying to
| install a second hard drive as a slave drive and keep the
| original drive as a master drive. New hard drive is Maxtor
| 250 Gb ATA/133 (6Y250P0) drive. I am using cable select
| jumpers setting. I have also installed Windows SP1 and
| updated my BIOS.
|
| BIOS shows new hard drive as a slave drive with 250Gb
| capacity. I used the vendor supplied disk to partitiion
| the disk (as 250 Gb drive)at boot-up. All installation
| went OK until Windows start-up. Windows come up with pope-
| up message saying new hardware (6Y250P0)found and new disk
| found. A new hardware wizard window comes up with a
| message saying that can not install hardware "required
| services are not installed".
|
| I checked the disk management and it shows healthy disk
| with 250Gb partition. Windows Explorer also finds a 250 Gb
| hard drive. I am able to cpopy and delete the files from
| new hard drive. However, every time I restart Windows, I
| get the same message ".. New device found and
| then .....can not install new hardware...".
|
| The device manager shows yellow mark on this disk drive.
| Under device manager_properties_driver, the messager says
| code 28 (deveice driver not installed). Under driver
| details, it shows only one driver PartMag.drv. For my
| other hard drive (master) it shows PartMag.drv and
| disk.drv.
|
| I have tried many things without any success in getting
| rid of the ".. New device found and then .....can not
| install new hardware...". message. I am not sure about how
| this will effect fture integrity of my data on this drive.
|
| Any suggestions and help will be highly appreciated.
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| -Digen
|

 

[Digen Butala]

Thanks for your quick response.

I should have mentioned that I did tried Master/Slave
jumper setting. I also tried to format-partition using
diskmanager (computer management).

Do I need two drives PartMag.drv and disk.drv for both
drives? The original drive has these two drivers
associated with it.

Thanks,

-Digen

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Make sure you have Service Pack 1 installed in XP. If not, then XP will
have problems using the 230GB partition.