🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, at this point, it seems that your most viable option (although not the
most pleasant option) is to reformat your hard drive using fdisk (or the 
appropriate analogy in ms-dos 5.0--I'm using DR DOS 6.0).  :(  Normally, when 
your hard drive's FAT has been corrupted it need to be either "fixed" with 
PC-Tools/Norton Utilities/Mace Utilities (difficult and dangerous) or 
reformatted (time consuming).

If you decide to reformat, try the following:
1)  install ms-dos 5.0
2)  install superstor and prepare your hard drive (reserving what you need 
uncompressed) and reboot
3)  install 386max and copy that directory to drive d: (the drive superstor
swaps your compressed drive with) along with the ms-dos 5.0 directory
4)  reboot and run maximize
5)  if everything is still running smoothly, install the rest of your programs,
run maximize, then run update from the ssutil menu

Hopefully, everything is running ok after all this.  This was the procedure I 
used to get everything running smoothly on my computer.  The only difference is
that I'm using qemm (which came with DESQview/X), DR DOS 6.0 (which includes a
different version of superstor), and SuperStor Pro.  The odd thing is, when I 
need to run optimize after running update, I need to re-install qemm each 
time... not much of a hassle, but quite annoying nevertheless.

Hope this helps.  If not, definitely contact the 386MAX people.  Quarterdeck 
had white papers/technical notes detailing using superstor with qemm386 and 
using dr dos (and it's version of superstor) with qemm386.  Maybe Qualitas (the
people who publish 386MAX, right?) has similar material or has figured out how 
to use superstor with 386MAX and has technical support people who could tell 
you could tell you how they did it.  Those white papers from quarterdeck were 
extremely helpful.  I don't think I would have gotten things to work so 
smoothly without out them.

     jjwu