[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: HD manufacturer's utilities fail to see drive (was New Data Disk Errors)

[Chris Cox]

Johnny Cybermyth wrote:
> Has any ever bought a drive which was not recognized by the 
> manufacturer's disk utilities?
> 
> I bought a new Maxtor IDE hard drive from Fry's a few weeks ago for an 
> older P4 HP Pavilion desktop.  When I installed the drive, I tried to do 
> the initial format using the manufacturer's disk utilities, but it 
> wouldn't see the drive.

Maxtor's utilities are junk.  I've talked to then many times
about it.  Try getting the Ultimate Boot CD... it has an older
version of the Maxtor utility on it which has never let me
down.

> 
> I checked all jumper settings, used two different 80 pin IDE cables, and 
> reseated all cables, memory, and expansion cards.  No dice.
> 
> So, I decided to move on and install the latest Ubuntu on the fresh 
> drive.  Ubuntu detected the drive, partitioned it, and installed after a 
> few false starts with what appeared to be bad burned install discs.
> 
> Everything seems fine now.  I haven't done much with the machine yet, 
> but I've booted it several times and have done some initial web surfing 
> on it.
> 
> Should I be worried?
> 
> --Johnny
> 
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