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Has mentioned you will need to go to maxtor web site.You will need to find out the serial No of the drive you have.You Can do this by going in to control panel then systems then device manager then click on the little cross on disk drives this will give you your full serial.Or another way my computer right click on your drive click properties and then click on hardware your serial No will also be there.Once you have this go to the web site where it says type of drive select your drive which will bring up all utils.You want to look for a diagnostic floppy disk which you can then download for free.Once downloaded on to your system you will need 1 or 2 blank floppy's.Click on the file you just downloaded and it will automaticlly install asking you for floppy's until it has finished.All you you need to do then is restart your pc with floppy in and it will re boot and bring up the diagnostic tools.If it is 2 discs it will stop half way through loading up ask you to put the next in and press c to continue.Once you have it all up have a browse through and you will see a part where it will give you options to quick clean or low format.You will be best completeing a low format or clean which ever it is called it will warn you all data will be lost just continue.The differance between quick and low is quick takes second but just cleans the surface where the low wipe anything any everyhting off even any errors you were not aware you had.The low can take 12 hours easy but its worth it.
Once you have done that you will also be able to set the size of the disc and format it to what ever operating system you require through the diagnostic tools on the disc.Then it is a simple case of with windows 98 start up disc in and cd rom start pc up again and select option start up with cd rom support and windows will set up from there.Remember you may have to install some of your drives from you mob cd rom again along with your graphics card cd modem cd and so on plus the software you wnt to install.Once you have done all this you pc will be int mint condtion hard drive wise without any errors.
Hope this helps
My apologies you are on window Me but this is same as 98 for intall.
Thanks
John179
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