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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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