Freak'n ATA133 controller won't detect my hd, please read

Josep

eyerun4phun

• Jul 16, 2002

• #1

WEll, after jacking around with this for an hour or so, i can't get my maxtor 80gig 7200rpm ATA133 hard drive to work. When i start up, my built in controller card for raid and ata133 DOES detect my Hard drive(abit kr7a-raid) But when i start up windows it does not show up in windows, I just updated the controller and still nothing I'm thinking about updating the bios, but i haven't done it b4, and i want to make sure i do it right, BUT i really don't want to do that, at least yet, please help

 

T

Trotterwatch

New member

• Jul 16, 2002

• #2

Well it could well be a BIOS issue but, I know this sounds a daft question... but you have Fdisked the drive, haven't you?

 

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Josep

eyerun4phun

• Jul 16, 2002

• Thread Starter
• #3

just updated to the latest bios nothing different though I haven't fdisked it since i just updated the bios, but i don't know if that would make a difference, i did before i updated the bios, well, i'll try fdisking right now brb

 

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Josep

eyerun4phun

• Jul 16, 2002

• Thread Starter
• #4

wait!! it says its there!!! wtf?! i sure as hell can't access it through my computer!!

 

The Khan Artist

Warrior for God

• Jul 16, 2002

• #5

Umm... you DID format the partitions on it, right?

 

Eagle

aka Alshain

Moderator

• Jul 16, 2002

• #6

Yeah, it sounds like you forgot something, like partitioning, or formating a new partition. If Windows recognizes the drive but can't access it then thats probably what it is.

 

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Josep

eyerun4phun

• Jul 16, 2002

• Thread Starter
• #7

well, i got it setup, but definitly not the way i wanted it, I had to hook up the hard drive where there isn't ata133 support on my motherboard I couldn't get anything to detect my hd when i would try to format or partition it, fdisk would just lock up if i tried setting the active drive o well, i got 80gigs, just not ata133, only ata100

 

Eagle

aka Alshain

Moderator

• Jul 16, 2002

• #8

That shouldn't happen unless you have the wrong setup in the bios for the drive. Possibly you had it set to Normal or Large instead of LBA?

 

fivefeet8

-= Clark Kent -X- =-

• Jul 17, 2002

• #9

I also have the same motherboard and same hard drive.. It's working fine in my ata133 ide controller.. Maybe you didn't install the correct highpoint raid controller? I sorta remember something similar happening to my computer when I installed winxp.. Winxp doesn't have the correct highpoint raid controller drivers.. YOu need to get the correct one for the abit KR7a 133...

 

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Josep

eyerun4phun

• Jul 17, 2002

• Thread Starter
• #10

i did download the newest version, excluding the beta ones, 2.31 i believe, didn't make a diff, when i started up, the raid/ata133 bios detected just fine, it knows its there, its just winxp still doesn't do anything about it like, i can't see it in winxp, i have to connect to my ghetto ata100 instead BTW is it possible to slave a ata100 to the ata133 off of the raid/ata133 controller on my motherboard?? o yea, you lost me eagle, yes i know almost every bios is different, but around what type of area would i find that option?