In an earlier posting, you said:

I've folled your instructions, and after making and inserting the 
boot disk, here is where I'm at: after typing "D" as directed, I now have the "C" 
drive, and the screen shows the info: "Directory of C"

This is of course impossible!

You can't possibly have changed directory to D: and then given the command DIR and 
gotten the message "Directory of C". You might have gotten the message "Directory 
of D"!

Please confirm what you actually did. I feel this is an important clue to what is 
really going on.


In an earlier posting, you said:

I did receive this statement after the disk booted up: Win ME has 
detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partition." 

But you claimed in that same posting that you had gotten a valid directory listing 
of C: - which is of course impossible. A WinME boot disk can only access a FAT or 
FAT32 partition. You can't get a directory listing of a non-DOS partition with it.

In combination with the other impossibility (see above), this indicates that the 
computer is recognising your C: drive as drive D: (and therefore, presumably, is 
recognising your CD-ROM drive as drive C:).


Although I'm loath to believe that you would not recognise that such a simple tranposition 
had occured, please confirm whether you have been unplugging any devices from the 
IDE cables. An incorrect connection to the IDE bus is the most usual cause of this 
type of drive transposition.


Ed