Re: Can't format 200 GB Maxtor SATA drive with Windows XP


I found this thread googling for the solution to the same problem.
I got the same controller, si-3112 version 0002 with driver v. 1.0.0.50
and just one hard disk, a Maxtor 6B200M0 (firmware BANC1BY0) attached to
it. My system disk is an old maxtor 6L040J2 (40 GB) attached to the
motherboard's ATA133 controller. The motherboard is an ECS K7VTA3 V5.0
based on the VIA KT333 chipset (VT8235 southbridge). My os is Windows
XP Pro SP2.
I get the same error trying to format the sata Maxtor drive using the
disk management function of the computer management console: "The
format did not complete successfully". Same using the format command.
I managed to format the drive using partition magic, but when I tried
to use it I found out that the file system soon became corrupted after
normal use, and chkdsk.exe couldn't correct the errors because of "not
enough space on disk", while the drive was almost empty.
I had an occasion to try the hard drive on a different controller, to
be precise the Via controller embedded in the southbridge of a kt880
based mainboard and the drive seemed to work well. Unfortunately I had
only a few hours to test the system before removing the hard drive,
because the computer wasn't mine, but during that time, as I said,
everything seemed to work well.
This fact together with the fact that someone else experiences the same
problem (which makes it reproducible) pushes me to think that controller
and hard disk are for some reason incompatible.
But I would like to hear someone more technically trained on this
subject, so I will send an email to Maxtor's customer's support, hoping
they will answer.
I would also like to include a link to this thread in the mail, so let
me know if you have anything against this.


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