ANYWAY, after going back to basics and shutting down extensions I got the computer to boot normally WITH the Maxtor power connected. (This befuddles me as I added nothing new from when system and two drives were working normally) Then I used MT Everything and figured out how to reset the Maxtor ID on the ATA Controller bus back to it's original setting of "0". Now I am back to being able to see the drive again! This is where I was before a system crash during a mount attempt in Drive Setup caused the boot problems.
Now, do I stop, remove the drive and try and test it on a PC or move ahead and try to mount it with a different utility, like Mt. Everything? Would it be safest to try and mount while booted from a CD?
If you can see the drive try to partition and format it.
I'm guessing you will lose the partition table again at some point. sorry
I'd really like to run some diagnostic on the drive before I installed it, nothing worse than not being able to trust your storage media.
Dont think booting for a cd will help you in this case, it wont hurt. Since I know nothing about the card your using I really can't say.
If you dont need extensions to get the card to function use the cd or a boot disk. DiskWarrior has something to do this?
OS8.1 disk tools can be found here http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/bootdisks.html you might try seeing, partitioning and formatting with the less than useful tools Apple supplies rather than using real old software that its author admits isn't 100%
I'd disconnect the other drive, mainly so I don't make a mess of that one and its less confusing. But thats me.
If you can get the drive up put the OS cd of your choice in and update the drivers on the hard drive.
Then reconnect the other drive. I you have problems now it would seem your card and second drive conflict for some reason.
Sorry to hear Maxtors policy is less than helpful.
Just recieved my replacement hdd from Seagate, no proof of purchase required and the drive was almost 30 months old.
good luck
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