I also have a HDD to recover data from but in my case the controller won't recognize the disk but sporadically now. The drive was less than a...
As ecpected, the 80gb drive did not work in the other computer. I put the controller card in the old pentium and got the same result; the 40gb...
An old Pentium computer I have lying around, yes... but it's pretty old and I's surely need to use the promise controller. In time maybe I could...
Thanks for at least trying. With luck someone who may have seen this or has some very technical info will wander by with some ideas. I have...
Slight update - SOMETIMES, when trying to boot, the drive is at least recognized by the controller. I cannot ACCESS the drive, but every so...
Can a virus POSSIBLY cause a hard drive to not be recognized by its controller? I thought of a virus. However this seems to be far too close...
This is a new thread started as an offshoot issue from another thread I already commented on it in. Background: I had two HDDs in my system; a...
OK... now I'm worried. I was feeling better for a while but now I'm worried. I got the old suspect HDD to boot up off the onboard controller...
Oh - forgot to mention it also says 'I/O error: Status = 00001020'. Any idea what that means?
I have a drive with an existing Win2000 install on a D: drive of NTFS. There's a C: FAT boot drive. During a failed disk access I quit being...
Laage; Only concern has been that the CDROM drive would take over drive C: when I installed and thus the system/boot drive would NOT be able to...
Profgab, Thanks for that info. Always good to know when there are problems and things should be avoided. That just leaves me with two...
Thanks. The maxtor link you provided was of no help, however. It didn't tell me much that I didn't already know. It also didn't address the...
Ahh, yes :) I was thinking of the r/w drives of old which were actually named "optical discs ". As for the recognition - the add-on (UDMA)...
Thank you all for the repsonses. Let me address the comments and add info: daddad, It's Promise Ultra 133 (actually the Maxtor label but it's...
I recently got an ultra dma 133 adaptor card (Promise Ultra133)for my desktop and a new 80gig drive. I hooked everything up as you would expect...
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