Maxtor SATA Problems

[Twiggz]

I recently bought a Maxtor 160GB SATA drive as it was quicker and cheaper than it's ATA counterpart. I however didn't foresee this upgrade when choosing a motherboard and went for a board without SATA capabilities. I therefore had to purchase a SATA add-on card (Titan VSCom SATA-200).

While doing a disk defrag on the drive, the power was cut and subsequently failed to boot thereafter. The PC simply reboots as soon as it gets to the XP start up screen. I installed XP on another drive and tried to boot with the SATA drive connected, upon which I got a blue screen saying that Windows will not boot as it might damage a piece of hardware. Safe mode yeilds the same outcome. Although when the HD is disconnected the computer boots fine and detects the SATA add-on card perfectly. Only when the drive is connected does it give this problems.

Is the HD or the SATA card damaged? My reason in suspecting the SATA card is that with a HD is connected, it is then only required to perform operations and to use a damaged component. Could this speculation be correct?

Many Thanks,
Twiggz

 

[ski]

The only way to find the cause of the problem is to either connect a different SATA HD to the SATA controller card, or connect the SATA HD to a different SATA card.

 

[Twiggz]

Thanks ski,

I managed to connect the HD to another computer and it worked fine, when I connected it back into my PC everything ran smoothly. Still don't know what the problem was but I'm happy as long as everything is working. Technology has strange ways!

Shot,
Twiggz

 

[ski]

You're welcome.
Glad to hear that things are working, and thanks for posting back.