Seagate 160 GB SATA Nightmare! HELP!

[josephclange]

Hi all-- Hopefully someone can help.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600, 2ghz, 1 gb RAM. I recently bought a
Serial ATA PCMCIA card so i could hookup a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB
drive. It is an internal 3.5" drive that i am running externally- with
an enclosure.

I went through all the Disk Wizard setup with no problem - it said i
formatted the drive and everything should be peachy. But when i try to
access the drive through Windows XP, it says it is not formatted. I
have tried many times to format it through Disk Manager, but it is
extremely slow... (only 23% OVERNIGHT).

All drivers are current, and cannot be updated. I have also gone to
the dell.com site and updated my BIOS - but to no avail. The PCMCIA
card seems to work fine-- the drive is recognized but it is seen as
formatted.

Another thing-- when the SATA cables are hooked up and i restart, my
laptop stalls on the "Windows XP with scrolling status bar" and will
stay there forever, until i power down, and disconnect the cable.

I can't seem to crack this one. Any options?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Hi all-- Hopefully someone can help.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600, 2ghz, 1 gb RAM. I recently bought a
Serial ATA PCMCIA card so i could hookup a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB
drive. It is an internal 3.5" drive that i am running externally-
with an enclosure.

I went through all the Disk Wizard setup with no problem - it said i
formatted the drive and everything should be peachy. But when i
try to access the drive through Windows XP, it says it is not
formatted. I have tried many times to format it through Disk
Manager, but it is extremely slow... (only 23% OVERNIGHT).

All drivers are current, and cannot be updated. I have also gone to
the dell.com site and updated my BIOS - but to no avail. The PCMCIA
card seems to work fine-- the drive is recognized but it is seen as
formatted.

Another thing-- when the SATA cables are hooked up and i restart, my
laptop stalls on the "Windows XP with scrolling status bar" and will
stay there forever, until i power down, and disconnect the cable.

I can't seem to crack this one. Any options?

Have a desktop computer you could put the drive in and format/test it in?

 

[Guest]

1st set the BIOS to run SATA along with other hds,once configured,install
xp cd,set to boot to xp cd,press F6 option install SATA drivers,after
procceed
to xp cd boot menu,select r For recovery,select 1 For C: (xp),press enter for
password,typeiskPart In DiskPart,create a partition on SATA drive,press
ESC key,type:FORMAT D: /FS:ntfs (D: being SATA drive),when thru,type:
EXIT Let xp start,remove xp cd.