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to: Andy Roberts
from: Torsten Balle Koefoed
date: 1999-10-27 21:39:29
subject: M$ `screw you` FAT32

Hi there Andy!

Replying to a message of Andy Roberts to All:

 AR> He said he started out by deleting _ALL_ WIN98 stuff, then running
 AR> Seagate's Low Level Format.  In the process he has tried to delete
 AR> that FAT32 partition with Linux, DOS 6.2, and Partition Magic.  After
 AR> all that OS/2 FDISK still shows the type "b" partition, and will not
 AR> allow him to use create a Boot Manager nor create any partition,
 AR> because the only free space he has (if any) is at the very end of the
 AR> HD.  When he deletes the partition all options become greyed-out. 
 AR> Then he reboots with the install floppies and goes back into FDISK
 AR> again, the type "b" partition is back again.

Just one simple question: Did he remember to "Save changes" before exiting
FDISK?

Yours etc.
  Torsten Balle Koefoed 

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