Jonathan de Boyne Pollard,

28-Oct-99 22:05:50, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Andy Roberts
          Subject: M$ "screw you" FAT32

 AR>> When he deletes the partition all options become greyed-out.

 JdBP> By the way, you might do well to tell your friend that the
 JdBP> normal behaviour of FDISK is that when the last partition on a
 JdBP> drive is deleted all options *are* greyed out, *except two*:
 JdBP> "Create partition" and "Install Boot Manager"

I hope he is reading all of this thread.  Seems to me he said those 2 were
greyed out when he got back into FDISK the 2nd time after a delete effort.
Right now I can't remember what options he said he had immediately after a
delete effort.  Before I started this thread, I told him he could just ship
the HDs to me and I would clean them.  If he does that, then I will know for
sure.  At the moment I feel like I'm in an odd position in the middle of this
situation.  I know what to look for during installation, and did identify at
least part of why it was failing.  But without the HDs here there could be
other circumstances.  The main advantage of my starting this thread may be
that we have finally got Dave Davidson to post a msg in here, instead of just
lurking like he has probably been doing for years.  There were some other odd
details of what FDISK reported about size before and after the delete efforts
and before and after the reboot.  But I didn't take detailed notes about that.
Maybe Dave Davidson will let us know more of the details.

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