Not sure if this will help with your problem, but there have been some instances with Maxtor drives, using 80 pin cables... You may try it with a 40 pin cable. You might even check to see if your Bios has an option to specify which type cable you are using. The problem with using a 40 pin cable is that you will not be able to achieve the higher ATA100 tranfer rates, but the slower 66. The only other option, would be to try to update your Bios to a newer version, if available.... Good Luck, Steve Wolfe........ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shail Sharma" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:03 AM Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive not existing > Hi , > I recently bought an AMD Thunderbird 1GHz , KT-7 RAID motherBoard, Maxtor > 30G HDD, and started installing Windows 2000 Prof. on it. Windows 2K doesn't > detects my HardDrive, whereas if I book it through Linux, it recognizes the > HDD, even Windows 98 does, but not Win NT and Win 2K. > Any suggestions. > > Shail Sharma > > The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech > support at our newest website: > http://freepctech.com The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com