I do plan to install ME on a small FAT32 partition so that I can use DOS apps if necessary, but I will be using XP 99.9% of the time. I only used the ME boot disk because it was recommended by several websites as the best boot disk for using fdisk. I eventually gave up on fdisk and tried to format from XP setup, but I had problems there too. I eventually got fed up with it and swapped the raptor for my maxtor storage drive. I formatted it as one large partition and installed xp successfully. I installed SP2 and it would no longer get into windows. I got fed up with that, and I'm messing with the raptor again. I can't even get WD's diagnostics tools to run for this drive. Every time I try to format it, it says "Trying to recover allocation unit ####", where #### is some number that slowly increments, accompanied by lots of clicking from the hard drive. Eventually it will say "Not ready Format Terminated." The Datalifeguard Diagnostics software from western digital has given me different errors each time, including IRQ Timeout, Unknown Error, Command Error, IDNF Error, and now No Drive Found. See errors 0112, 0101, 0132, 0116, and 0120
here.
This is getting frustrating. I'm still not even sure if it's a problem with the drive or a problem with me. Right now, it isn't even showing up in the BIOS. It is, however, clicking a lot. The clicking is at about 2Hz. It clicks 40 times, pauses, and repeats. This is annoying [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]