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tomdelonge

I have a sata 2 drive that has been working with windows, fine I think. I have had to reinstall xp onto my IDE drive tonight because of a startup file error and recovery console not fixing it, well I cannot get the SATA drive to work now. When it is plugged in windows takes an age to load and the drive shows up in my computer, I am just not able to access it.
The drive shows up fine in bios with the typical maxtorxxxxxxx model number.
I am 100% certain my sata 2 drivers are installed as when I look at the installed hardware it says NFORCE 250 Serial ATA controller in the device manager.
I cannot format this SATA drive as it has all my docs on. I am not bothered about music etc, but I am bothered about the pics!

I also have a SATA dvd rw which seemed to work fine before and I am having the same problem as the HDD.

Gandalf

Originally Posted by tomdelonge

I have a sata 2 drive that has been working with windows, fine I think. I have had to reinstall xp onto my IDE drive tonight because of a startup file error and recovery console not fixing it, well I cannot get the SATA drive to work now. When it is plugged in windows takes an age to load and the drive shows up in my computer, I am just not able to access it.
The drive shows up fine in bios with the typical maxtorxxxxxxx model number.
I am 100% certain my sata 2 drivers are installed as when I look at the installed hardware it says NFORCE 250 Serial ATA controller in the device manager.
I cannot format this SATA drive as it has all my docs on. I am not bothered about music etc, but I am bothered about the pics!

I also have a SATA dvd rw which seemed to work fine before and I am having the same problem as the HDD.

What version of Windows are your using?

tomdelonge

Windows XP

I got the drive working once last night.
Everything was fine and then when I restarted and plugged in my DVDRW sata drive, it just went back to normal for both drives.

Gandalf

Originally Posted by tomdelonge

I have a sata 2 drive that has been working with windows, fine I think. I have had to reinstall xp onto my IDE drive tonight because of a startup file error and recovery console not fixing it, well I cannot get the SATA drive to work now. When it is plugged in windows takes an age to load and the drive shows up in my computer, I am just not able to access it.
The drive shows up fine in bios with the typical maxtorxxxxxxx model number.
I am 100% certain my sata 2 drivers are installed as when I look at the installed hardware it says NFORCE 250 Serial ATA controller in the device manager.
I cannot format this SATA drive as it has all my docs on. I am not bothered about music etc, but I am bothered about the pics!

I also have a SATA dvd rw which seemed to work fine before and I am having the same problem as the HDD.

While you may be curtain about your hard drive's driver there are more drivers to a computer than just one. Suggest you do the following. With the sata drive connected, first, check your system drivers by clicking on Start>Windows(Microsoft) Update. Click for Custom updates. Second, recommend you click on http://driveragent.com/ and check the status of your non-system drivers.

tomdelonge

Driver agent showed both my PATA and SATA drivers as being bad.
I don't understand this as I downloaded the latest nforce drivers from the Biostar website.
Same for the SATA.
I have done the microsoft update and the only hardware driver it told me to download was for my soundblaster card.
I am downloading the 70 odd or so other updates.

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