Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB, Driver? :S

Heaven Can Wait · 10 Dec 2006 at 22:33

Just formatted the girlfriends PC, she had 98 on it..
Figured i'd need the drivers for the hard disk, its a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB, and yeah, you guessed it, I cant find the driver, looked on the maxtor website but no success.
Really could do with some help, was being mr knowitall to her parents last night, haha.

rpstewart · 10 Dec 2006 at 23:01

You don't need specific drivers for the disk, Windows' has it's own generic drivers for hard disks.

Heaven Can Wait · 10 Dec 2006 at 23:06

Then why, when installing XP doesn't it find a hard drive?
I figured it was raid :confused:

rpstewart · 10 Dec 2006 at 23:12

Is this a SATA drive? You may need a floppy with drivers for the SATA controller.

Heaven Can Wait · 10 Dec 2006 at 23:29

Yeah its SATA, Yeah i need drivers,

I guess its pretty old now though so they dont have the drivers on the maxtor site? Is there another place to get this driver?

rpstewart · 10 Dec 2006 at 23:32

You need drivers for the controller, not the drive. Normally they'd be on the CD that comes with the motherboard.

Heaven Can Wait · 10 Dec 2006 at 23:40

Ah, didn't know that, so im not after a floppy after all.

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...age/DiamondMax+Family/Utilities&downloadID=19
Did find that, dismissed it due to its size, is that what im after?
thanks for the help by the way

squiffy · 10 Dec 2006 at 23:42

Nothing to do with Maxtor. Download your motherboard chipset drivers.

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 00:16

Had a look inside, motherboard has 'MSI AGP 9x' on it, I have found what i thought to be a driver, but its not loading it, no txtsetup.oem file in it, so i guess its not the driver after all.
any help welcome, don't really like asking for help all the while, but i've googled my ass off

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 00:23

Think i've got what im after, had to look closer to find the exact mobo

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 00:40

Well, I found the driver for the motherboard, it gets past that part on the installation, the motherboard is a MS 6570, its now showing that there's no hard drive..

thefishdude · 11 Dec 2006 at 00:45

is *** hard drive showing up in the bios ?

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 00:49

Nope, just read this
'
the hard disk appears as "6YO80MO"...for maxtor sata drives with 80gb capacity....select that as the primary boot device...and your Cd-drive as the second (not neccesary)

when installing windows...press F6..this option is the first one that appears right after the blue screen appears which initializes the installation....insert the disk in your drive and follow the instructions..youll figure it out..its really simple.'

Im guessing this is saying that first i need to download the driver that i posted a link to earlier, burn it... as a bootable CD? or? then bios and install it, then immediatly repeat the process with the mobo driver?

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:03

not sure how to boot the hard drive driver from floppy, anyone?

ns400r · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:12

Make a floppy disk that contains the SATA drivers for tha motherboard.

Boot the system from the Windows XP CD.
Press F6 when prompted and follow the onscreen instructions.

Windows XP setup will look at the floppy drive for a diskthat contains drivers. You then select the driver you need and continue.

Promise Serial-ATA RAID Drivers
Support model For motherboard with on-board Serial-ATA chipset (e.g. PDC20376)
Description • Fix MS-6565 v2.0 test S3 200 times fail issue
• Driver version: 1.0.0.19
Date 2003-1-29
Your System OS Win9X/ME/2000/XP(361KB)

nVidia nForce2 SATA RAID Driver (For floppy driver)

Support model nVidia nForce2 based mainboards
Description nVidia nForce2 SATA RAID driver
1. Extract the file and Copy all files to the floppy.
2. Press F6 to install driver through the floppy when booting and loading RAID function.
Date 2006-7-17
Your System OS 2000/XP(284KB)

nVidia nForce2 SATA RAID driver
1. Extract the file and Copy all files to the floppy.
2. Press F6 to install driver through the floppy when booting and loading RAID function.

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/driver/dvr/spt_dvr_detail.php?UID=393&kind=1

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:14

Still not showing a harddrive, I have two floppys now, of which when i press S in the installation after f6 i can only load the drivers from one of the disks, removing the floppy and inserting another one doesnt display any new drivers.
at least from this im learning a little more.

ns400r · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:15

If the hard drive is not shown in the bios then it's either not connected properly, the controller is disabled in the bios or it's faulty.

Can you see the drive in the bios?

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:18

nope, its not faulty either, it had win 98 on and was fine... like 5 hours ago, haven't touched the cables, dont dare to

How would the controller be disabled? its all set on auto in the IDE bit, nothing about sata or anything :S

ns400r · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:23

It only takes a milli second to break something.

The various IDE and/or SATA controllers can be enabled and disabled with bios settings.

Double/triple check the connetors on the drive. SATA isn't the best connector in the world and can easily move!

You won't get far if the drive isn't seen by the bios. In fact you'll get nowhere.

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/manual/mnu/spt_mnu_detail.php?UID=393&kind=1

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:39

What your saying is, if it doesnt auto detect the drive in the bios, its not gonna work? even with trying to install drivers?
i cant see anything to do with sata in the bios

checked the cables, all fine.