Unable to partition a new primary disk

[Guest]

I have a new Maxtor 160GB, motherboard KT7A-Raid. I have tried to different methods. The Maxtor came with a PCI card, downloaded current software. My mother board can has limitations up to 136 GB . ABIT they told me to download the latest driver. In both situations I did and when I run XP Professional it says Unknow Disk
(There is no disk in this drive.)
156328 MB Disk 0 at Id0 on bus 0 on hpt3xx [MBR]
C: Partition1 [New (Raw)]
Unpartitioned space
It says this disk does not contan a windows XP-compatible partition.

Does any one know what the problem is?

 

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|I have a new Maxtor 160GB, motherboard KT7A-Raid. I have tried to different methods. The Maxtor came with a
PCI card, downloaded current software. My mother board can has limitations up to 136 GB . ABIT they told me
to download the latest driver. In both situations I did and when I run XP Professional it says Unknow Disk
| (There is no disk in this drive.)
| 156328 MB Disk 0 at Id0 on bus 0 on hpt3xx [MBR]
| C: Partition1 [New (Raw)]
| Unpartitioned space
| It says this disk does not contan a windows XP-compatible partition.
|
| Does any one know what the problem is?

 

[wayne]

Not sure what the problem is?

Delete the partition and have windows create a new one. The disk may also
have come with a formatting utility to allow you to format the drive before
installing windows on the disk?

Wayne

I have a new Maxtor 160GB, motherboard KT7A-Raid. I have tried to

different methods. The Maxtor came with a PCI card, downloaded current
software. My mother board can has limitations up to 136 GB . ABIT they
told me to download the latest driver. In both situations I did and when I
run XP Professional it says Unknow Disk

(There is no disk in this drive.)
156328 MB Disk 0 at Id0 on bus 0 on hpt3xx [MBR]
C: Partition1 [New (Raw)]
Unpartitioned space
It says this disk does not contan a windows XP-compatible partition.

Does any one know what the problem is?

 

[Guest]

Go to run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click the drive,actions,all,select,format
the drive.When its thru,actions,all,select,make active.

 

[Quentin David Jones]

Greetings,

Well,
If the MB has a limit of 136, you will have to get around that.

I don't think "drivers" are the solution.

You may have luck with -

* a new BIOS for the MB (if there is one that handles > 136)

* an overlay for the disk (software that installs on the disk and makes it
readable to the BIOS)

Look for both of these on the MB web site.

Quentin

 

[Russ]

Have you tried Maxtors BigDriveLimit.exe utility? It is suppose to fix this
problem

I have a new Maxtor 160GB, motherboard KT7A-Raid. I have tried to

different methods. The Maxtor came with a PCI card, downloaded current
software. My mother board can has limitations up to 136 GB . ABIT they
told me to download the latest driver. In both situations I did and when I
run XP Professional it says Unknow Disk

(There is no disk in this drive.)
156328 MB Disk 0 at Id0 on bus 0 on hpt3xx [MBR]
C: Partition1 [New (Raw)]
Unpartitioned space
It says this disk does not contan a windows XP-compatible partition.

Does any one know what the problem is?