Dear Jun,
That's a fair question.  I should have noted that in my original message.
Yes, that was what I tried first.  It still tells me that the drive cannot
be formatted.  Which I've proved to be untrue by using fdisk and format from
a Win98 boot disk.

Another thing I tried was the Win2k startup disks from the nospin site, and
still hung up at the formatting stage.

Charles


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ultra" <[log in to unmask]>


> This may sound silly, but have you tried to leave the HDD un-partitioned,
> and let win2k setup creat partition for you? I have found tha win2k setup
is
> one of best partition tool.
>
> Jun Qian
>

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