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Originally Posted by Semi On
Wow, I never knew they needed one. Never had a Maxtor before, I only ever use Western Digital.
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That's always what I thought. I might be wrong but on a recent PC build with a new up to date motherboard and a new maxtor 40gig drive the following was my experience.
1. Used Fdisk and format from a win98se boot disk on the drive.
2. All appeared to partition / format ok
3. Started to install win98se from cd.
4. Just had horrendous problems as the hd started to corrupt files all over the place during install.
5. Went back to step one again. Tried to install win98se again and had several errors and crashes but eventualy got win98se installed.
6. Continue problems - no stability - files corrupting all over the place including registry.
7. Downloaded maxblast (on another machine) and copied it to boot floppy.
8. Partitioned and formated usinf maxblast (and selecting win98se as os)
9. Installed win98se fine and its been fine since.
Now as I understand it there is no reason why any HD would need a proprietary format util - but that was my expereince. Thus it seems to me that not using maxblast with maxtor drives is not a good idea. I may just have been unlucky I guess and the inital problems I had may not have been related to the HD but it certainly seemd that way to me. Anyway I will be avoiding maxtor drives in the future, just in case.