Can't find my hard drive at all. No idea what is wrong. Can find the a: drive and the Cdrom but no hard drive. It's also making a beep noise ever few minutes as if to tell me something. Maxtor is the hard drive. Thanks in advance.

So, you're booting a DOS from a floppy disk? What sort of interface are you using for your hard disk? ATAPI? SCSI? What DOS are you using? What happens when you try to access the hard disk from DOS? Anything? Nothing? Does it lock up? Do you get an error message? If so, what? The beep you mention is really making me suspect this is a hardware issue. Does your computer's motherboard detect the hard drive? Does the motherboard's CMOS setup utility see it? If the motherboard can't see the hard drive, you've definitely got a hardware fault or hardware configuration issue of some sort. If the motherboard can correctly detect the hard drive, however, consider the following: Is the hard disk partitioned? If not, you'll have partition it. If the hard disk is partitioned, is it partitioned in a way that DOS can handle it? Do the partitions contain a file system DOS can recognize (FAT12, FAT16, etc.)? (By the way, if you're using FAT16 with 64K-sized allocation units, DOS won't see it. 32K blocks is the limit for all ix86 DOSes I'm aware of.)

What version of DOS are you useing with what size harddrive? MS-DOS will not see drives larger than 2 GB, or ANY FAT32 drives.

What version of DOS are you useing with what size harddrive? MS-DOS will not see drives larger than 2 GB, or ANY FAT32 drives. SORRY I did mean MS-DOS 6.22 in the above example!

Things that cause that condition a lot are 1. Booting With MS-DOS 6.22 to a FAT32 (Large drive support) hard drive and 2. trying to access a hard drive that is no longer spinning--power connection loose, etc.