Andy Roberts wrote in a message to All:

 AR> Personally I'm a little surprised that Seagate's Low Level 
 AR> Format prgm for IDE drives did not solve the problem.

So am I.

 AR> OTOH I'm not doing the work, and my friend is not near by, and 
 AR> he may be re-installing Win98 every time before he tries to 
 AR> install OS/2, thus re-creating the problem all over again.

Or otherwise not operating the program correctly.

 AR> This situation has been going on for several years, but he did 
 AR> tell me he went through the Low Level Format this last week end.

I've only ever had one set of problems with a partition table here,  and that
was because I made the mistake of letting an AHA-1520 do the translation
thing.  This caused some very odd behavior when I switched to the (current)
2842,  and only a low-level format seemed to fix the problem.

 AR> At this point I'll do almost anything to solve this problem and 
 AR> stop this annoying repetitive complaining about OS/2 
 AR> installation not flushing the M$ toilet.

Heh.  Interesting choice of phrase,  there.

 AR> I would appreciate any suggestions in detail that I can forward 
 AR> to him to do.

I will be looking forward to seeing other responses you get to this.  So far,
I haven't run into the problem myself,  but any software that puts _zeros_ in
that first sector of the disk,  without regard for partitions or filesystems
or anything else oughta do it.  I *think* I remember seeing somebody post a
debug script that would do the trick,  though I can't be sure.

I'd want to know from somebody with this complaint _in detail_ the steps they
were taking,  there's probably some assumption that's messing things up in the 
details,  somewhere.  You never can tell with these win-users.

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