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  1. scannell3657

    Trouble Installing Maxtor 160 GB Hard Drive

    I have finally solved the problem with drive and now it installs properly with no indicatin of a problem. I first determined what the problem was by searching for the setupapi.log file on my C: drive. Within that file I found the following message: Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICE...
  2. scannell3657

    Trouble Installing Maxtor 160 GB Hard Drive

    Thanks for your information! I presently have a Pentium 4 PC operating at 1.9 MHz. My OS is XP home edition. I still have not figured out to get the drive to work but I have determined that the yellow exclamation is caused by the disk.sys native driver not being loaded. Actually the driver...
  3. scannell3657

    Trouble Installing Maxtor 160 GB Hard Drive

    Here is more information for the puzzle. I am able to format the drive either with maxtor software or with windows XP. Either results in the same effect, yellow exclamation. I have removed the drive from the device manager and when I used the find new hardware control. It identified the drive...
  4. scannell3657

    Trouble Installing Maxtor 160 GB Hard Drive

    Thanks for thinking about my problem! I have obtained updated drivers for the controller card but this did not help. I have since given up using the controller card and I have attached the drive to the motherboards primary controller and have configured the drive to be a slave. My other drive...
  5. scannell3657

    Trouble Installing Maxtor 160 GB Hard Drive

    The drive is identified in the BIOS and I have applied the 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) support for ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) disk drives. I can see the full 160 GB for the drive when I access my computer.
  6. scannell3657

    Trouble Installing Maxtor 160 GB Hard Drive

    I recently purchased a maxtor PY160P0 hard drive for use as a slave in my windows XP system with a western digital 80 GB hard drive as the master dirve. The installation went well with the Maxblast 3 software with the maxtor drive attached to the supplied promise controller card but in the...

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