Vista - Sata 2 / Sata II drive vanishes after format on 939 dual VSTA

I installed a Maxtor Diamond Max10 160GB Sata 2 drive to my system. My other
drives are a PATA 120GB HD and PATA Sony DVDRW

MB ASRock 939 dual VSTA
AMD 64 3000+
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9650 AGP
Terratec DMX6 Fire 24/96
Winfast 2000 PCI
Vista RC1

After i formatted the drive it just vanished from exploere AND the drvice
manager. I installed the drive as a secondary drive and set it up int the
bios as SATA Mode (IDE Mode does the same thing).

If I disable the sata driver and then re-enable it, the driver reapears, but
only briefly.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

What shows up in Drive management? Maybe you need to assign a drive letter.


"brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I installed a Maxtor Diamond Max10 160GB Sata 2 drive to my system. My
>other
> drives are a PATA 120GB HD and PATA Sony DVDRW
>
> MB ASRock 939 dual VSTA
> AMD 64 3000+
> 1GB RAM
> ATI Radeon 9650 AGP
> Terratec DMX6 Fire 24/96
> Winfast 2000 PCI
> Vista RC1
>
> After i formatted the drive it just vanished from exploere AND the drvice
> manager. I installed the drive as a secondary drive and set it up int the
> bios as SATA Mode (IDE Mode does the same thing).
>
> If I disable the sata driver and then re-enable it, the driver reapears,
> but
> only briefly.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?

Brighton1967:
Johns' answer is correct, for a drive or partition to show up in
explorer it has to have a drive letter. I also add a label to the drive or
partition to relieve confusion. While in drive management you can assign a
drive/partition letter and name without re-formatting the drive. Another
possibility is that your motherboard or bios doesn't support SATA2 hard
drives.


"brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CEB2FBF2-3BF7-444A-B403-FDC5CBA5419B@microsoft.com...
>I installed a Maxtor Diamond Max10 160GB Sata 2 drive to my system. My
>other
> drives are a PATA 120GB HD and PATA Sony DVDRW
>
> MB ASRock 939 dual VSTA
> AMD 64 3000+
> 1GB RAM
> ATI Radeon 9650 AGP
> Terratec DMX6 Fire 24/96
> Winfast 2000 PCI
> Vista RC1
>
> After i formatted the drive it just vanished from exploere AND the drvice
> manager. I installed the drive as a secondary drive and set it up int the
> bios as SATA Mode (IDE Mode does the same thing).
>
> If I disable the sata driver and then re-enable it, the driver reapears,
> but
> only briefly.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?

It vanishes from Disk Manager as well - it's gone!.....always detexcted by
the bios tho, no probs there.

There are 2 partions on the driver, both with drive letters and names, and
both formatted.

Thats bad.. i was planning to buy a sata II raid-ed system this week...
can you post the result here..
it will help a lot..

"brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:283EAF74-6B4C-4748-BF83-38B272727B83@microsoft.com...
> It vanishes from Disk Manager as well - it's gone!.....always detexcted by
> the bios tho, no probs there.
>
> There are 2 partions on the driver, both with drive letters and names, and
> both formatted.

I think it's a motherboard issue, or perhaps a bad drive......only one Sata 2
connecter on this board anyway...

"zaxon" wrote:

> Thats bad.. i was planning to buy a sata II raid-ed system this week...
> can you post the result here..
> it will help a lot..
>
> "brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:283EAF74-6B4C-4748-BF83-38B272727B83@microsoft.com...
> > It vanishes from Disk Manager as well - it's gone!.....always detexcted by
> > the bios tho, no probs there.
> >
> > There are 2 partions on the driver, both with drive letters and names, and
> > both formatted.
>
>

I'm not familiar with the Maxtor, but Hitachi has a software program to
reset the drive to SATA I, and Samsung has a hardware setting. Have you
tried to reset the drive to SATA I mode?

"brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FFA2536E-A697-4D30-9461-6EBBECAEDFFE@microsoft.com...
>I think it's a motherboard issue, or perhaps a bad drive......only one Sata
>2
> connecter on this board anyway...
>
> "zaxon" wrote:
>
>> Thats bad.. i was planning to buy a sata II raid-ed system this week...
>> can you post the result here..
>> it will help a lot..
>>
>> "brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:283EAF74-6B4C-4748-BF83-38B272727B83@microsoft.com...
>> > It vanishes from Disk Manager as well - it's gone!.....always detexcted
>> > by
>> > the bios tho, no probs there.
>> >
>> > There are 2 partions on the driver, both with drive letters and names,
>> > and
>> > both formatted.
>>
>>

I've tried it in the Sata 1 slot, and it works....just not working in Sata 2
Mode on the JMICRON connector...


"John Barnes" wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the Maxtor, but Hitachi has a software program to
> reset the drive to SATA I, and Samsung has a hardware setting. Have you
> tried to reset the drive to SATA I mode?
>
> "brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FFA2536E-A697-4D30-9461-6EBBECAEDFFE@microsoft.com...
> >I think it's a motherboard issue, or perhaps a bad drive......only one Sata
> >2
> > connecter on this board anyway...
> >
> > "zaxon" wrote:
> >
> >> Thats bad.. i was planning to buy a sata II raid-ed system this week...
> >> can you post the result here..
> >> it will help a lot..
> >>
> >> "brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:283EAF74-6B4C-4748-BF83-38B272727B83@microsoft.com...
> >> > It vanishes from Disk Manager as well - it's gone!.....always detexcted
> >> > by
> >> > the bios tho, no probs there.
> >> >
> >> > There are 2 partions on the driver, both with drive letters and names,
> >> > and
> >> > both formatted.
> >>
> >>
>
>

thats a relief...

Thanx for the info....

People sharing knowlage on internet are
making world a better place

zax..


"brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7BCFF3F8-7034-430E-A316-625FCF409130@microsoft.com...
> I've tried it in the Sata 1 slot, and it works....just not working in Sata
> 2
> Mode on the JMICRON connector...
>
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> I'm not familiar with the Maxtor, but Hitachi has a software program to
>> reset the drive to SATA I, and Samsung has a hardware setting. Have you
>> tried to reset the drive to SATA I mode?
>>
>> "brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:FFA2536E-A697-4D30-9461-6EBBECAEDFFE@microsoft.com...
>> >I think it's a motherboard issue, or perhaps a bad drive......only one
>> >Sata
>> >2
>> > connecter on this board anyway...
>> >
>> > "zaxon" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thats bad.. i was planning to buy a sata II raid-ed system this
>> >> week...
>> >> can you post the result here..
>> >> it will help a lot..
>> >>
>> >> "brighton1967" <brighton1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> >> message
>> >> news:283EAF74-6B4C-4748-BF83-38B272727B83@microsoft.com...
>> >> > It vanishes from Disk Manager as well - it's gone!.....always
>> >> > detexcted
>> >> > by
>> >> > the bios tho, no probs there.
>> >> >
>> >> > There are 2 partions on the driver, both with drive letters and
>> >> > names,
>> >> > and
>> >> > both formatted.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>