Dave Davidson wrote in a message to Ian Moote:

 IM> According to Andy's report, FDisk _isn't_ deleting the partitions.
 IM> According to him, when you reboot the FAT32 partition is still
 IM> there. So, is is still there when you reboot?

 DD>  Yes. When I run the OS/2 install disks and it gets to FDISK, 
 DD> it shows a  Type B partition, with the only options available 
 DD> is to delete the  partition. When I delete it and exit FDISK, 
 DD> the partition doesn't appear  to be there. However, upon 
 DD> re-booting, it's there again.

What happens to your options after fdisk has said it's deleted that partition, 
but before the reboot?  Do you have any other choices?

(Added later) Never mind,  I see where you say you don't.



 IM> Andy reported that FDisk was not removing the FAT32 partition. 
 IM> You're the one running the software, does FDisk say that the 
 IM> partition is still there or not? How much free space is it
 IM> reporting?

 DD>   It's only showing half the HD or around 2GB. I don't remember 
 DD> the exact numbers, but it is weird! When the Type B partition 
 DD> is _deleted_ by FDISK, OS/2 reports there's not enough room to 
 DD> load Boot Manager or anything else.

_After_ the deletion?

A couple of things come to mind here.  What size is that drive again?  What is 
the setup in cmos with regard to the drive's geometry?  And,  have you updated 
any of the install files to those dealing with large disks?



 DD> I'm building   another machine from scratch also for OS/2, with 
 DD> a Soyo MB, with a Pentium   120 CPU. That's the machine I 
 DD> wanted to use the 10.3GB Seagate HD in.

That one would definitely require the updated files on the boot disks.

 DD>   As I mentioned in a previous post, each of the three drives 
 DD> discussed,   4.3GB Seagate, 2.5 WD and 10.3GB Seagate were 
 DD> installed as a single drive while trying to load OS/2, as well 
 DD> as being in a Master/Slave configuration. Each with the same 
 DD> results. I spent almost 24 hours trying to get OS/2 loaded on 
 DD> that machine.

The 2.5 shouldn't be a problem,  the 4.3 I'm not sure about in this respeect.

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