I recently obtained a Pentium 166 computer which contained a 2Gig Maxtor 72004A IDE hard drive in it. Installed on the drive is the Ontrack 7.06 1993-1995 dynamic drive overlay disk manager program. Wanting to start with a fresh system I repartianed the hard drive using win95 fdisk, and reformatted the drive and reinstalled win95. Now when booting up the system it appears to hang for a rather long amount of time with the blue drive overlay banner info and a message to allow you to boot from a floppy disk. The red hard drive light stays on at this point constantly although I can hear no drive activity. After about 1 1/2 minutes the system boots to windows and everything seems fine from this point on. I might add at this point that I do not have any software for the overlay program other than what is installed on the hard drive.

My question or questions.

Did I make a mistake running fdisk on the hard drive rather than a partianing program from within the drive overlay program?

Should I somehow remove this older version of the overlay program and install the latest manager software available from Maxtor on their site.

If I need the overlay manager software on floppy is there a way of obtaining this (older) version?

I am kinda of lost at this point so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks