Torsten Balle Koefoed,

27-Oct-99 21:39:58, Torsten Balle Koefoed wrote to Andy Roberts
 TBK> Replying to a message of Andy Roberts to All:
          Subject: M$ "screw you" FAT32

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

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

Yes, he did, at least the time he ran FDISK while I was on the phone.

Still I think FDISK is a miner problem compared to LLF supposedly not working.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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