Hi I hope I can explain this right, I know if you don't have the exact
software it is impossible but this is what I did you need to find an OEM
SETUP disk because you will need it with you WME CD, and then got to
www.maxtor.com see who made your hard drive follow the directions and also
PC Tech has directions to follow for the partitions and FDISK


Angela
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Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Windows ME that still won't


> I think you made a mistake by doing FDISK to the Harddrive which would
lose all information of the original setup and therefore the recover disk
won't work.I believe you will have reinstall WIN/ME and all hardware and
programs. Quite likely you don't have drivers and necessary disks to do
this. So where do you go from here? To someone who has knowledge of your
system and can can do the installation. Hopefully others will have a better
solution.Mike Michel  --- On Tue 08/26, Connie Clifton &lt;
[log in to unmask] &gt; wrote:Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows ME that still
won'tUpdate on my prior posting. (Trying to get a HP Pavillion to run
therecovery program.)I appreciate your help although I must have done
something wrongcause now its really not co-operating.I used fdisk to delete
the partion on the hard drive and create anotherone. First time I've ever
done that so I have no idea what I did wrong ifanything. Now it has a
partion on the drive with no volume lable ( blank) and nooperating system.
If I get the fdisk to create a dos partition it gets to the"verifing drive
integrity" part and works up to anywhere from 10 to 30 to about50%, (once
went to 100% ) and then drops back to 0 and starts over. It justruns and
runs and runs.If I get the recovery disk to run it says "invalid Media Type
ReadingDrive C" and I must exit.Where do I go from here? Don't say crazy,
I've been there done that.help!!!Connie Clifton
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