Yes, the OS is XP, but the floppy I happened to have on hand was a Win 98 startup disc. I don't recall exactly the message it gave me but I will copy it down and post it if you wanted to see it. I know it said basically that it did not recognize a FAT or FAT32 partition, and that I would have to FDISK and create a new partition.

So the next thing I'll do is as you suggested, try it as a slave in another machine and see if there is any access to it that way.

Thanks for helping me along guys.


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