New S-ATA Drive Problems

[hougtimo]

Hi,

I recently purchased a 300GB Maxtor S-ATA HDD (with PCi Adapter) which I now have in my PC running along side an 80GB IDE HDD. The new maxtor runs perfect, its fast and silent, XP installed first time with no problems too. Now I have a couple of problems:

1) I i try to extract a RAR archive that is split into parts, at least 2 of the parts will be 'corrupt' and it'll be a different 2 every time i try. It works perfectly first time from the IDE drive though

2)If i use nLite on files on the Sata drive, components are removed, but non of the tweaks are applied. I have checked the NTFS permissions etc... and everything is fine there. Using nLite on the IDE drive also works fine.

I would apppeciate any help. I just really want to know whether its a hardware fault or software.

Thanks

HougTimo

[nmX.Memnoch]

Who is the PCI adapter made by? It's very possible that a firmware and/or driver update for that adapter could fix your problem(s).

[hougtimo]

The PCI adapter is made by Maxtor. Upgrading the firmware and drivers was the first thing i did, so it isnt that. anoy other ideas?

[LLXX]

1) I i try to extract a RAR archive that is split into parts, at least 2 of the parts will be 'corrupt' and it'll be a different 2 every time i try. It works perfectly first time from the IDE drive though

Does scandisk report anything unusual? This looks like a problem with the cabling. Signal is getting corrupted by electromagnetic inteference. Route the SATA cable away from the IDE and the power ones.