I have a maxtor hd drive. I also tried to boot up with my floppy first ,the cd first, and the hard drive first to get this thing running still dose'nt work. I also did'nt see my hard drive in the list of the web site you gave me. I will be able to borrow the win xp disk when the guy who built the thing comes back from vaction.
Mike

PowerMax v4.21 (01.25.2005)
The PowerMax utility is designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on Maxtor and Quantum hard drives. These tests will determine hard drive integrity. The PowerMax utility is effective on all ATA (IDE) hard drives with a capacity greater than or equal to 500 MB. Maxtor recommends the use of this utility for troubleshooting potential hard drive problems.

- Download PowerMax (English | Direct Link | 0.94 MB)

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

You create a bootable floppy from this download.