Well that explains a lot. This is what happened. I got a new IBM 10GB ide drive for my laptop and Ontrack was included. I tried to install Solaris 8.0 and that was a complete bust. I was able to load win95 on it once, booting fm the hdd, then wiped out win95 while installing MK 7.2. In th end I had MK 7.2 booting fm the hdd, and one empty 3gb partition that I could not load win95 on no matter what. Then ran ontrack again loaded MK 7.2 on the whole thing. With every attempt Disk Drake would warn me it could not see the partition, and do I want to continue. Well I did using Reister FS and got kernel panics and wouldnt boot. Somehow I got MK reloaded using ext2 file system but cant boot fm the hdd now--but it boots, and I have no wasted hdd space. This beast takes hours to load, and I really dread another attempt. Probably just going to live with the floppy boot--might tackle this later. Thanks for the help. Bruce > fdisk will not do a clean format in this situation. > The Ontrack software operates on the same principle as EZ-Drive > and creates a "special" protected sector on the hd prior to the MBR > and no amount of formatting will remove it. > The only manner in which it may be removed is by uninstalling it. > > You can then fdisk /MBR and format the hd with the utility of your > choice including the Mandrake installation. > > Charles (-:
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