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I found a way to save everything! All I had to do was connect the hard drive and controller card to another computer. The drive showed up just as it should. I am going to re-format my other computer and wait until afted windows is installed to connect the 250GB back up. *tek-tips rules!!*

I've plugged the 250GB into my secondary master IDE channel on my motherboard and removed the Raid controller card completely. The drive is still read as 40GB by windows though.

Ok, so I was checking out the settings for my raid I/O card that my 250GB ATA/133 drive is connected to. I accidently pushed something and now my 250GB shows up as a 40GB drive and I can't access it. When I click on it windows offers to format it!! Ahh!! This is very emotional for me because I...

I am using the 80-wire cable that came with the IDE controller card. The drive is set to slave and is the only device connected to the controller card. I'll try it as a master and see if that makes a difference.

The original error was just a generic Write Error message like the ones that pop-up when an A: drive disk fails.

Much appreciated! I will look more as well.

I've run the PowerMax diagnostic program and no errors came up. I skimmed through dozens of pages of threads and none seem to cover my exact issue. All that I found out was that ATA133 is backwards compatible with ATA100 motherboards.

I recently purchased a 250GB MAXTOR DIAMONDMAX 10 Ultra16 UltraDMA ATA/133 hard drive for my Dell Dimension 4100. I knew prior that my motherboard supported up to ATA/100 but I read that there was no compatibility issues with this. I installed the drive, formatted with NTFS and split the drive...