Thought just fixing the bad sectors would allow the drive to boot, maybe,
A few step by step things here.
Under win xp.
Hit the start button.
Select "my computer"
Go to "view"
Select "details"
If the "file system" header is not present.
Then right click the header bar, and put a check by the "file system"
selection.
Tell me what it list for the Maxtor drive!
(ie) fat 16, fat 32, or NTFS.
It should be FAT 16.
If not, stop and tell us.
Hit the start button again.
Right click "my computer".
Select "manage" from the list.
Go to "disk management."
You should see both of the hard drives listed there.
Make sure that it says "healthy" under the status header
for the second hard drive.
Right click the little icon for the second hard drive.
In the popup menu you should see a selection for "mark partition as active."
If it is grayed out, then the partition is set active.
If it is not grayed out, then select it to set the
primary partition on the second drive as active.
That way, it will be bootable.
Double check the drive geometry settings that I mentioned in the other post.
And then try booting from it, as the primary drive with no CD/DVD drives
hooked up.
It should work.
If it doesn't, then next step.
Get a dos 6.22 boot floppy with MSD.EXE on it, WITHOUT the Drive space
drivers.
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To remove DriveSpace drivers from the floppy, do the following.
Put the floppy in the computer with Win xp running.
Bring up the floppy drive folder (A:\) on win xp.
Go into the "tools" button on the top of the folder, and
Select "folder options"
Select "View" tab
Under the "advanced settings" section
Select "show hidden files and folders"
Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"
Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"
It will give you a warning but tell it that you are sure you wan to do that.
Select "OK" to get back to the A:\ folder and you should see stuff like
IO.SYS
MSD.SYS
DRVSPACE.BIN
If you see nothing with DRVSPACE on the front,
then there is no drive space drivers.
You can proceed to the next step.
If there is files with DRVSPACE on the front,
!!!!!!!!! ON THE FLOPPY DRIVE !!!!!!!!!!!
Remove everything that starts with DRVSPACE.
!!!!!!!!! ON THE FLOPPY DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Boot from that floppy disk with the Maxtor drive set as primary..
You should see the raw drive as C:\
(ie) 110MB drivespace.000 file and stuff, with 8MB free.
If you don't then run MSD.EXE and check to see if the
C drive has been re listed as some other odd drive name.
If you see any drive listed under "disk drives" other than A:\ that's it
Go to the DOS prompt and see if you can change to that drive..
If you don't see any other drive then stop everything there and tell us.
You have a corrupted master boot record, or some other problem.
If you did see it as drive C:\, then boot to a DOS disk WITH the drive space
drivers on it.
And drive C should be the inside of the compressed drive.
If you can't find C drive, then run MSD.EXE to find out where it's been
relocated.
If you still see the raw uncompressed C:\ drive,
Or it has been relocated to some odd drive number with no C:\ present,
or you had the primary drive come up as some
odd drive number in the previous steps.
Then you will need to manually mount the drive.
Go to the dos laptop and copy all the files out of the dos directory
That have Drvspace on the front half, to the floppy disk WITH drivespace
drivers.
(While you are in the dos directory)
Copy DriveSpace.* a:\
Copy the drive space files to the free space of the raw uncompressed drive.
On the raw uncompressed drive, run "Drvspace/mount"
The compressed drive should show up as the next available drive letter.
If you can't find it, then run MSD.EXE to find the drive letter it assigned
to it.
You should see three drive listed.
The A:\(floppy drive), the raw drive, and the compressed drive.
If anything goes astray from the listed steps, then stop there and tell us.
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