I have SATA Disk problems

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:46 PMGary PDX

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I have SATA Disk problems!!!
A description of the problem I am having.

I have a P5N-E SLI mother board with 3 drives.
One IDE as the C drive and two STAT disks. a Seagate
ST350032OAS connected to SATA #1 and a Maxtor
STM350032 connected to SATA #2 the OS names D & E.

forced to reinstall the Win 2K OS and SP4, I have
downloaded from the ASUS website JMB36X SATA
drivers and installed them (I have also tried the
drivers on the support CD that came with the MB
same problem).

The BIOS finds the disks and the OS finds them, The OS
disk management tool detects the disks shows the disk
size 465.76 GB, file type NTFS and declares them
"Healthy".

the device manager thinks all is well too and declares
them to be functioning correctly.

BUT when I try to explore disk D or E I get a error
message "D:\is not accessible Access is denied"
Also when I use the properties tool on the disks it
reports the file system unknown, used space and free
space as zero.

I have checked the FAQ and trouble shooting portion of the ASUS
web site nothing like the problem I am experiencing. I have tried
may permutations of the installation process and also tried other
operating systems XP and Vista same or worse result. I have been
searching the web, Microsoft and computing sites also posted my
problem so far no solutions.

I believe this to be a software problem and not hardware these disk
have been working reliably until my OS became to corrupt to use
and I had to reinstall. One small clue I remember being told to edit
a line in one of the win2k system to make the disks work but failed
to record this information. And I have not been able to find the source
again despite much searching.

Technical assistance from ASUS has been weak so far.
Seagate tech support via chat tried to figure it out but
but gave up.

I need to get these disk back in service even though I have backed
up the data on them there is still valuable data and I have work to
be done. I sure would like to get my disks back working again
can you help me find a way to fix this problem?

Thank you.
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