WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to TOM WALKER, "Win98FE Harddrivicide?"

 -> ->         I have this new Thinkpad with 4 USB ports and they are seen in
 -> ->   the BIOS, when starting from an ERD. I was able to FDISK the dead HD
 -> ->   connected to the USB to FAT 32. Before, I would have to instal the
 -> ->   dead drive in a system as Master on IDE 0 and the FDISK always saw
 -> ->   it. Now why is Wayne C.'s HD not visible to FDISK in this same
 -> ->   circumstances ?

 -> He must of messed it up with some Funny LINUX stuff in hte MBR that Win
 -> dosne't see.

 WC> Nope, Linux fdisk worked just fine with all partitions seen
 WC> fine. It was only upon loading the OEM Windows software disk
 WC> it went bad.

Don't know where I heard, but they said Windows should go in first for a dual
boot. Lilo/Grub is much better at getting along than MS is.

... Strength avails one not against Akaido. -W. Chirnside
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