AR> IM> -----
AR>
AR> My E-Mail address as seen below my sig is not *.com but
AR> andy@shentel.net

Oh! I was thinking ".net" but I must have typed in ".com" by habit! 
Sorry about that. Will try it again.


AR> AR>> But don't expect OS/2 FDISK to be able to delete the type "b"
AR> AR>> FAT32 partition, because OS/2 was released before FAT32
AR> AR>> existed, so OS/2 does not know how to deal with it.
AR>
AR> IM> ??? Do you know something about this "type b" partition that I
AR> IM> don't? Why do you think that OS/2 won't delete it?
AR>
AR> Because while I was on the voice phone with Dave Davidson, he
AR> attempted to use FDISK to delete what was reported as a type "b"
AR> partition.  He then used "Save and Exit" FDISK which forced him to
AR> reboot.  When he got into FDISK again the type "b" partition was
AR> right back where it was before.

Such is obvious, but why would you _expect_ FDisk to behave that way 
simply because it doesn't know what a type B partition is? All partition 
types are stored in the MBR in the same manner and in the same format. 
Switching from one type of partition to another is literally a matter of 
changing one byte in the partition's entry (then re-formatting, of 
course).


AR> While my personal experience with FAT32 is very limited, I think
AR> that behavior has been reported by others.

Oh? Interesting.


AR> Although FDISK does not
AR> say type "b" is a FAT32 partition, I found a web site that lists
AR> what is probably over 100 different partition ID types.

Would you be so kind as to pass on that URL? That information would be 
handy in my business.


AR> IM> [:DDD At least you know something of human nature!! [:D
AR>
AR> LOL... I've watched him play that game before.  When he gets stuck,
AR> he all too quickly pulls out his WinXX install CD looking for a
AR> solution, but not acknowledging that M$ is really the cause of the
AR> problem instead.

[:))) What I was thinking of was the marketing strategy of relieving a 
customer of his "plan B". [:) People are lazy. If they plug something in 
and it doesn't work the first time they take it out, put the old one 
back in, and return it saying that it "doesn't work". If you relieve 
them of their old unit then you are forcing them to put a lot more 
effort into making it work. [:)

Sorry about the E-Mail address. Take care and TTYL.

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