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post #1 of 3
12/4/06 at 6:05am
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Hey all... a friend bought a new Maxtor drive and wanted me to install it into their computer as the boot drive. I hooked the thing up into the IDE, set it as master...etc. I boot to the Maxtor ulitility disk that came with it, which is MaxBlast4, and it loads and says "Maxtor detected do you want to set up this disk" I click yes, and then it goes into the set up screen and says "There is no Maxtor Drive detected in the System"

WTF!?

Any ideas? No matter what I can't get this thing formatted as a bootable disc. I've tried three different hard drives and three different XP discs and all of them BSOD sometime during the copying of files.

Ahrhghrhgh!
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post #2 of 3
12/4/06 at 11:29pm
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Heh...

Well, It seems that there was a thin piece of plastic between the fan/heatsink and the processor and it was causing the thing to overheat!

Totally bizzare that they'd put this nearly invisible piece of plastic on there, but hey.
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post #3 of 3
12/5/06 at 4:47pm
Ah yep, its usually a plastic piece to protect the processor during packaging and such. Glad you solved it, and hopefully your processor didn't get any heat damage
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