Windows NT server cannot find Maxtor fireball 3 40 GB hardisk

[equity]

Hi,
just installed a new Maxtor fireball 3 40 GB IDE hardisk in my computer with a SCSI motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the hard disk on boot up but the Windows NT server OS does not list the drive in the windows explorer. I even used the Mapower and maxblast utilities to partition the hard disk (2 GB) and format it. The utilities are offcourse finding the new drive and the tests done by these utilities are all successfull. What am i doing wrong.
Thaks for your help

 

[wolluf]

First - reason new drive didn't appear in NT's explorer was it hadn't been partitioned and formatted. You do this with Disk Administrator in NT (Its on Administative Tools menu, or run windisk.exe). Once you've partitioned/formatted it in there, it will appear in explorer.

I would try this now (not sure why you created a 2GB -rather than 40GB - partition with maxblast - btw, always best to use windows own partitioning tools where possible) - I would also remove the maxblast created partition first.

Note: Am assuming NT server running latest service pack (6a) & bios can see whole 40GB drive.

 

[equity]

Thanks wolluf for the help .I did the formating and partitioning with the Maxtor utilities because the disk administrator from Windows NT server was not finding the maxtor hard disk either. The reason for making partition of 2 GB was because i thought my OS wouldnt recognize a bigger hard disk but then i read somewhere that with service pack 4 and above that shouldnt be any problem. I have service pack 6. Someone told me that i should enable the ATAPI service so the drivers are loaded for IDE devices. I am not on my computer but will try ASAP.

Thanks

 

[equity]

Yes the BIOS can see the whole of the 40 GBs

 

[wolluf]

Yes - need to check if drivers are loaded for atapi (from you're first post, presume only SCSI drives previously) - check the SCSI Adapters control panel icon - there should be an IDE entry under drivers & an entry for the IDE drive under devices.

 

[equity]

Thanks wolluf, the last post of yours did the Job.
Though its strange that the IDE devices are attached under SCSI adapters control

 

[wolluf]

That's just an NT foible!