Hi

If you go to the hard drive forum under Dimension and read or do a search you will see that the Maxtor drives have been noted to be a very bad deal.

Run the extended test on them and see if the drives are going bad,

I would put my money on the drives are bad:smileysad:

and Vista is telling you the right thing to do.

Edit

one other thougt how big is your power supply in your PC 4 drives

may be to much to have in it.plus all of the other stuff also.

not enough power see my point.

Hi hope you get working.

Right now i have 4 Seagate drive in my PC 2 set to raid 0 Ultimate x64

and the other 2 with different  Vista OS on them and Vista has not complained about it,

so not sure it is a Vista problem.

See yea  

Thanks for the reply C3PO5, the power supplies on these Gen 3 XPS machines are pretty much the same as those on the Precision 530/650 etc and are designed to easily cope with 4 x sata plus 2 x optical drives as well as delivering power to all the other bits of kit like the 512Mb graphics card installed, they certainly don't suffer from being underpowered.

 

I've run full diagnostics on both drives both internally and externally via a caddy using both third party and manufacturer software and whilst there were the usual blocks being rectified by scandisk/chkdsk etc both disks are healthy hence my surprise - it may be a bug in Vista (maybe something to do with more than 2 disks not raided ?) - anyway, will let the board know if I find a solution/explanation to this issue.

 

Personally I've never had any problems with Maxtor drives, always found them to be reliable, same as western digital. The only drive I'd never touch are fujitsu seimens.