The latest situation is:

1. I've managed to install Warp.  Not really sure why it is happy
to install now, and not before.  All I can see is that I've
reorganized the disks, putting my corrupt disk as the slave of the
second ide controller.  

2. Warp's fdisk gives me an error saying "disk 4's partition may
be corrupt".

3. Warp won't let me install on my new drive E, which is now the
first logical partition on the 3rd IDE drive.  The size of the
partition is 1900 meg.

4. Warp won't let me format my G drive (3rd logical partition on
the 3rd IDE) as FAT, giving me error message:
The type of file system for the disk is HPFS.
The new type of file system is FAT.
SYS1274: The size of the requested partition exceeds 2,048MB or is
beyond cylinder 1023 of your disk.
The second part is correct, but I thought LBA solved these problems?

5. Warp is now showing my 4th drive as being partitioned as
10 (freespace), 500, 1897, 3 (freespace), 33
I could have sworn I set it up as 10 (freespace), 500, 1900, 33
Should I attempt to delete the 1897 and create a 1900 partition
instead, to see if that gets my data back?  I am beginning to 
think that something has gone seriously wrong with LBA!

Paul
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