I think you should read your error message again. You're using a third party partition software. BTW - Excellent list. Wish I'd found it earlier. Cheers Brendon -----Original Message----- From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Rowell A Arce Sent: 27 February 2001 07:55 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [PCBUILD] startup disk can't see my hard drive hi im new to this so please bear with me. i have an amd k5 pr133 with 48mb; 16x cd drive; 1.44 fdd; conner 121 mb slave drive; and a seagate 3.1 gb master hd partitioned with "partition resizer" into 1.9 gb,500mb, and 610mb. the machine works perfectly under winme for a few months now there really is nothing wrong with it except that when i tried booting up with a startup disk i made 95% of the time it does not recognize my 2 harddrives. a message appears saying my hd has no valid fat partitions either it is not partitioned, has a virus, or i am using a third party partition software. notice i wrote 95% bec there are rare instances that it does see my hds. i tried using dos, win98, and win98se startup disks but thay are all the same. i read the notes in partition resizer but does not seem to say any thing regarding my problem. if i boot directly to the c: drive everything works fine. need help or clarification. thanks juan arcenio [log in to unmask] __________________________________ www.edsamail.com PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]> PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>