K8T Neo MainBoard does not recognise Maxtor DiamondMax9 120GB SATA drive

[John Guilbert]

Hi,

Can anyone help?

I have the following setup:

K8T Neo MS-6702(v1.X) ATX Main board with an IDE controller on a VIA
VT8237 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and ULTRA
DMA 66/100/133 operation modes. Can connect up to 4 IDE devices.
Serial ATA/150 controller integrated by VT8237, Up to 150MB/s
transfer rate. Can connect up to 2 serial ATA devices.
The SATA Hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax9 120gb 8mb Cache 7200rpm
SATA HDD.

The Problem:

The SATA drive appears on the Control panel but doesn't appear on the
Screen when viewing My Computer. I also can't load the Disk Drive
Cache because when loading the settings are all dimmed, so can't be
initiated.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John.

 

[Stephen]

Hi,

Can anyone help?

I have the following setup:

K8T Neo MS-6702(v1.X) ATX Main board with an IDE controller on a VIA
VT8237 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and ULTRA
DMA 66/100/133 operation modes. Can connect up to 4 IDE devices.
Serial ATA/150 controller integrated by VT8237, Up to 150MB/s
transfer rate. Can connect up to 2 serial ATA devices.
The SATA Hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax9 120gb 8mb Cache 7200rpm
SATA HDD.

The Problem:

The SATA drive appears on the Control panel but doesn't appear on the
Screen when viewing My Computer. I also can't load the Disk Drive
Cache because when loading the settings are all dimmed, so can't be
initiated.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John.

Did you format the drive?

Stephen


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[Dee]

Hi,

Can anyone help?

I have the following setup:

K8T Neo MS-6702(v1.X) ATX Main board with an IDE controller on a VIA
VT8237 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and ULTRA
DMA 66/100/133 operation modes. Can connect up to 4 IDE devices.
Serial ATA/150 controller integrated by VT8237, Up to 150MB/s
transfer rate. Can connect up to 2 serial ATA devices.
The SATA Hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax9 120gb 8mb Cache 7200rpm
SATA HDD.

The Problem:

The SATA drive appears on the Control panel but doesn't appear on the
Screen when viewing My Computer. I also can't load the Disk Drive
Cache because when loading the settings are all dimmed, so can't be
initiated.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John.

Did you load the SATA drivers? Is the SATA channel enabled in the BIOS?

 

[Michael Hawes]

Did you load the SATA drivers? Is the SATA channel enabled in the BIOS?

What OS???? If XP, use Disk Manager, Win98, use FDISK.
Mike.

 

[John Guilbert]

What OS???? If XP, use Disk Manager, Win98, use FDISK.
Mike.

Thanks for your help guys.

 

[John Guilbert]

I have just spoken to my father who was having this problem and he has
told me he can't see the drive to format it. He says his SATA drivers
are loaded and the SATA Channel is enabled in BIOS. He told me he has
not formatted the drive as he can't see it. He is on Win XP
Professional.

Taking the advice above does it make sense for him to go into Disk
Management in Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management
and if he sees the drive, tell him to format it in NTFS format.

Thanks,

John.

 

[David Maynard]

I have just spoken to my father who was having this problem and he has
told me he can't see the drive to format it. He says his SATA drivers
are loaded and the SATA Channel is enabled in BIOS. He told me he has
not formatted the drive as he can't see it. He is on Win XP
Professional.

Taking the advice above does it make sense for him to go into Disk
Management in Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management
and if he sees the drive, tell him to format it in NTFS format.

Yes, and it may not be partitioned either.

You won't "see it" in My Computer if it isn't partitioned and formatted
because it isn't a 'drive' yet without that.

 

[John Guilbert]

Yes, and it may not be partitioned either.

You won't "see it" in My Computer if it isn't partitioned and formatted
because it isn't a 'drive' yet without that.

Thanks for that Dave. That's what I told him.