Greg Matheson wrote to Jack Stein on 05-20-1998
GM> This was with auto detect drive in BIOS (found 84000 cy 16hd 63
GM> sec)
Big motha', isn't it? Makes one question the numbers......
GM> The only way I could get the OS installed was to use it(the
GM> drive) on another M/board which allowed me to choose LARGE
GM> mode in BIOS, and the OS2 install was happy to fdisk the
GM> drive and install....
One trick that seems to work with those 'stubborn' partition tables is
to either use the DOS (from floppy) FDISK /MBR or OS/2 FDISK /NEWMBR.
I've had that work when removing all the partitions didn't work.
Will Honea
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