Installation Trouble - txtsetup.oem - not found

maxtor diamond plus drive w/ ata 133 PCI card

Maybe this will save someone some time... I searched for this entry
and couldn't find it... I have a Dell 8100, my daughters' figured out
how to crash the hard drive that came with it last night. Went to
Staples this morning bought a Maxtor 200GB drive that comes with a
bundled ATA 133 PCI card. Great! Put the the card and disk in... boot
MAXTOR software, format, partition no problem... Boot XP off a CD....
setup never would find the drive even though the BIOS recognized it...
Tried using the F6 option when booting XP so it prompts for a
SCSI/RAID/ETC controller software... When it prompted me for the
driver disk I dutifully inserted the ATA 133 setup diskette I made off
the MAXTOR CD. It gave me an error: missing txtsetup.oem.... Called
MAXTOR tech support, a useless waste of time - they had no clue...
browsed the Maxtor website. Found new driver code, made new diskette,
it worked like a champ. Here is the link to the updated drivers:
https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...% 2A%2A&p_li=
Follow the ATADRVR.EXE link in te middle of the page under software
installation. This makes a good floppy that works under XP SP1 (my
experience)...

(Dave Hansen) wrote in message . com...
maxtor diamond plus drive w/ ata 133 PCI card

Maybe this will save someone some time... I searched for this entry
and couldn't find it... I have a Dell 8100, my daughters' figured out
how to crash the hard drive that came with it last night.

Dave

I'm wondering what your daughter may have done to kill the hard drive?
It's easy enough to screw things up to the point where it may need a
fresh OS install. I'm curious what may have happened that physically
damaged the hard drive? What indicated to you that the hard drive was
shot.

Regards,
Doug