Andy Roberts wrote to All on 10-25-1999

AR> Personally I'm a little surprised that Seagate's Low Level Format
AR> prgm for IDE drives did not solve the problem.  OTOH I'm not doing
AR> the work, and my friend is not near by, and he may be re-installing
AR> Win98 every time before he tries to install OS/2, thus re-creating
AR> the problem all over again.  This situation has been going on for
AR> several years, but he did tell me he went through the Low Level
AR> Format this last week end.

I'm a bit suprised, too.  That sucker cleared the last drive I tried
it on just fine - and I had the same problem with the partition table.

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

The way I normally do it is to boot a DOS 6+ diskette, run fdisk, and
delete the 'non-dos partition'.  That has flushed more Win 98
installations for me than anything else.
 
AR> I would appreciate any suggestions in detail that I can forward to
AR> him to do. 

Watch over his shoulder.  Anyone having this much trouble is probably
not reading the Seagate prompts and hitting the wrong damn key!

Will Honea 
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