What I ended up doing was formatting my HD in safe mode, thanks for that
advice.  And then reinstalling XP Pro.  After I installed Maxtor, I checked
and now it recognizes my HD.  Now I have to just reload all my stuff.  Good
thing I have backups.

Diane Kroeckel

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Ray Parrish <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Diane K wrote:
>
>>  Dear Listers,
>>
>> I am using two Maxtor 200GB HD's.  I've been using my Maxtor software that
>> came with them to make bootable backups, which are created in DOS and I
>> love
>> that.  Anyway, now when I run it, it says I need to have a Maxtor or
>> Seagate
>> drive plugged in.  I don't know what to do to change that or make it see
>> my
>> drives.  They show up in my BIOS.
>>
>> Also,  I'm trying to format my backup Maxtor in Windows and it keeps
>> saying
>> it's being used.  So how do I change that, or can I just format it in
>> DOS.
>>
>> Diane Kroeckel
>>
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> An alternative that would work is to download and burn the .iso image of
> Gparted Live to CD, which is a Linux based partition manager program, that
> will run from a bootable CD, and is smart enough to create any Windows file
> system you would care to use on that drive. Since you would be booted from
> the Live Linux CD, there would be no processes running on the drive as you
> worked with it. It's free, and you can opt to use it from USB, or another
> hard drive if you wish.  You can get it here -
>
> <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php>
>
> Another option is the Ubuntu Linux Live CD image, which you can also burn
> to a bootable CD, and which includes Gparted among the programs that are
> included on the CD. This too if free, and it's handy to have a second
> operating system to fall back on to surf the web, when your Windows isn't
> working right. You can run Ubuntu right from the CD with no installation
> necessary, and it includes Firefox as a browser. If you need to make a clone
> of a drive, it includes the Linux command dd which does just that for you.
> dd will make a bit by bit exact copy of any drive to another drive of the
> same size or larger. Get Ubuntu Live here -
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/
>
> Here is a very good tutorial on using dd to clone drives. This forum thread
> is 6 or 7 pages long, with the tutorial in the first post, followed by a
> very good question and answer session, which covers all the bases for using
> dd.
>
> <http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=149328>
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
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