🚀 go-pugleaf

After getting a lot of very good advice from this newgroup, I set
about installing SuperStor 2.0 on my Gateway 2000 386DX with an 80Mb
IDE hard drive.  I'm running MS-DOS 5.0, 386MAX, and Windows 3.1.

(Incidently, this post contains NO Windows-specific questions, but
this newsgroup is only one on which I can find SuperStor users.)

The installation did not go well.  When SSTOR finished PREPARING
my hard disk and I re-booted, DOS told me it couldn't find COMMAND.COM.
I had to get out my DOS 5.0 installation disks and copy EXPAND.EXE
to my C: drive, and then use EXPAND.EXE to get EDLIN off the installation
disks.  Then I used EDLIN to change the SHELL statement in my CONFIG.SYS
to point to a copy of COMMAND.COM on the uncompressed drive.  I could
then boot (almost) normally.  It was then I discovered that for some
reason there were NO files in my C:\DOS directory (C: being the compressed
drive).  Evidently SuperStor forgot to copy them when it compressed
everything.  Since I installed DOS 5.0 using the "vanilla" installation
procedures, I'm at a lost to understand why SuperStor would have trouble
with this.

Anyway, I restored my C:\DOS directory from the backup I made prior to
installing SuperStor and continued.

Next I thought I'd re-run 386MAX's MAXIMIZE to get the SuperStor
driver loaded high.  Of course, 386MAX.SYS has to be loaded before
SSTORDRV.SYS, so 386MAX.SYS (and many other 386MAX files) have to
reside on the uncompressed portion of my disk.  However, this portion is
presented as the D: drive to MAXIMIZE, and I haven't been able to convince
MAXIMIZE that it shouldn't use C: in filenames.  I guess I'll be talking
to the 386MAX people today.

So, I edited my CONFIG.SYS to change the C:'s that MAXIMIZE put in to
D:'s and re-booted.  Imagine my surprise when 386MAX.SYS started reporting
that it couldn't find any of the things it was supposed to load!  Further,
imagine my anguish when my AUTOEXEC.BAT finished and DOS gave me the
message "File Allocation Table Bad".

Now, any attempt to run a program just causes my machine to hang.

Any advice?

Thanks for listening, and thanks in advance for any help you can give.