Sata 2 / Sata II drive vanishes after format on 939 dual VSTA

I installed a Maxtor Diamond Max10 160GB Sata 2 drive to my system. My other
drives are a PATA 120GB HD and PATA Sony DVDRW

MB ASRock 939 dual VSTA
AMD 64 3000+
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9650 AGP
Terratec DMX6 Fire 24/96
Winfast 2000 PCI
Vista RC1

After i formatted the drive it just vanished from exploere AND the drvice
manager. I installed the drive as a secondary drive and set it up int the
bios as SATA Mode (IDE Mode does the same thing).

If I disable the sata driver and then re-enable it, the driver reapears, but
only briefly.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

 

What shows up in Drive management? Maybe you need to assign a drive letter.

 

Brighton1967:
Johns' answer is correct, for a drive or partition to show up in
explorer it has to have a drive letter. I also add a label to the drive or
partition to relieve confusion. While in drive management you can assign a
drive/partition letter and name without re-formatting the drive. Another
possibility is that your motherboard or bios doesn't support SATA2 hard
drives.

 

It vanishes from Disk Manager as well - it's gone!.....always detexcted by
the bios tho, no probs there.

There are 2 partions on the driver, both with drive letters and names, and
both formatted.

 

Thats bad.. i was planning to buy a sata II raid-ed system this week...
can you post the result here..
it will help a lot..

 

I think it's a motherboard issue, or perhaps a bad drive......only one Sata 2
connecter on this board anyway...

 

I'm not familiar with the Maxtor, but Hitachi has a software program to
reset the drive to SATA I, and Samsung has a hardware setting. Have you
tried to reset the drive to SATA I mode?

 

I've tried it in the Sata 1 slot, and it works....just not working in Sata 2
Mode on the JMICRON connector...

 

thats a relief...

Thanx for the info....

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