its moving week here in kollege town, and as a result, i've managed to net two perfectly fine (300mhz and 550 mhz with trifiling problems) PCs from the "display" area next to the dumpster (also got a REALLLYYY nice monitor that accompanied the 500) at my apartment. i had a 30 gb hard drive that i had on a p133 motherboard (running a 233 chip), that obviously needed the maxtor overlay to work on aforementioned motherboard. i previously installed w98 and w2k on it. when i put it in, it will get to the point where it asks me which op sys i'd like to start, at which point in w2k it will show the splash screen for about 30 secs, and then say something to the effect of "error reading I/O device" . it will act similarly in w98. I tried manually typing in the heads/cylinders into the bios, which let it run for a little bit longer before it halts. i tried using the latest maxtor software to try to take the overlay off, but there's no option in it for doing that. any suggestions? tia.