I work with many old donated PC's and see Non-DOS with FDISK often.

This happens when I use a W95 startup disk with HD that has W98 or a W98
startup disk with a HD that has W95.

Do not know if this has anything to do with the original stated problem,
but thought I would mention it.        Howard Papke

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