Maxtor drive

[flinder]

Tried booting WinMe on 3 boards with this drive.
Get a boot disk error message.
Try with ERD and get error that drive has no FAT.
Drive as secondary can be read and write to.
Ran the 3 disk diag programs from Maxtor.
All found the drive with no errors.
Any way to recover the FAT without losing data?

[Mntsnow]

you might try using Lost & Found by PowerQuest. You might also try using PartitionMagic and see if you can "fix" the Fat.

[Welsh Wizard]

Have you tried Maxtors quick install to install and format drive before installing ME, MS ME seems to screw up with some of the Maxtor drives.

WW

[Axel]

I'd scrap the ME OS completely and slip back to win98SE with all of it's fixes and updates.....

I'm certain that, unless you're hitting hardware failures - you'll have much more success and much less frustration.

Look on www.pricewatch.com and you can find very inexpensive copies of win98SE OEM disks - then go to a used book store if you really need a manual.

Otherwise - there is absolutely no reason to go to ME unless you're stuck in Alaska and fedex cannot get you any other OS.... and even then.....