[-=[TEK]=-Joe]

Ive had this maxtor 100Gb hard drive installed since thanksgiving. Just today its not showing up any more. Ive gone into the bios and there it shows up, ill turn it off, start windows, shutdown, and enable it again but nothing when it gets to my account. anything i can do?

[Bonez]

can you hear it spin up ?

[-=[TEK]=-Joe]

well i have 2 in there so im not really sure. But i think when i start up the computer i can hear em both spin.

[-=[TEK]=-Joe]

im still having the same problem. Sometimes it will show up on windows, and sometimes it wont. Do you think a reformat will work?

[Groove Champion]

Reinstall the drivers before you do a format.

[-=[TEK]=-Joe]

ok im going to reformat it. When i go to try to format it thru mycomputer then manage, the choice to format is grayed out. How can i format it through DOS

[Groove Champion]

just type in "Format <drive>:"

I highly doubt that formatting it will help though, it sounds more like a windows driver issue to me. I strongly recommend just going to their website and fishing around for the windows drivers. Windows would probably still detect it even if it was a hardware issue.
Maxtor.com seems to have what you'd need.

[Bonez]

Originally Posted by Groove Champion

just type in "Format <drive>:"

I highly doubt that formatting it will help though, it sounds more like a windows driver issue to me. I strongly recommend just going to their website and fishing around for the windows drivers. Windows would probably still detect it even if it was a hardware issue.
Maxtor.com seems to have what you'd need.

if it is a windows driver issue bolth of his drives would be wonky(since the IDE driver is motherboard dependant not drive dependant) my old 30gb would regester in the BIOS, but would not load in windows because it would not spin up.

probally just the motor dying depending on how old it is(and it's a maxtor who are known for drives with bad motors)

[Dvshadow]

yea..maxtor is a 2 year right?

RMA