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.

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:

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?

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

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..

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?

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.

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

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.

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 02:55

haha, where you from?

I get a ctrl F for fastbuild, this does show the HD, not familiar with it at all though, im not sure about the motherboard, i do know that the HD is SATA and it was working fine, untill me, the supposed computer genius, messed with it, heh.

Heaven Can Wait · 11 Dec 2006 at 03:16

HAHAHA
It's working!
Thank you so so much, will go and check now to make sure im not happy for no reason.