WC>-> Disaster struck when he went to install Win98FE from an OEM disc. It
WC>-> appears that the Linux FDISKed the HDD to full 65GB,

WC>Nope, it wrapped the drive overwriting the MBR and is no longer
WC>detectable by the Promise I/O card or by Linux fdisk.
WC>It WAS the OEM Windows software that trashed the drive.

Flash the MBR and re-partition.

FDISK /MBR
Then re-partition.  Install of LINUX will probably do this for you but
WIN is nasty and may have to manually do it to return the HDD to use.
      xxcarol


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