Well, it figures.  After I get to my wits end and post my problem to
PCBuild, I get an idea to try one more thing.  I re-did my Win98 Boot Disk.
After that, everything seems to work as it should with fdisk.  I guess there
was something wrong with the copy I was using earlier.  Nothing like
overloooking the obvious.  Doh!

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sproule" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: A Problem When Running Fdisk


>The problem is that after I've made the E: drive, using up all the
> remaining extended partition, I can go back to the fdisk menu and ask it
to
> show me the current partition data and everything looks fine, ie C, D, and
E
> all show up with the right amount of space in each.  But after I exit
fdisk
> and reboot (again using the Win98 boot disk), the E: partition doesn't
show
> up.  The boot disk goes ahead and assigns the ramdrive to E:, and I know
> that I'm in trouble at that point.  If I try to run fdisk after the boot
up
> is finished, I get an error message about the fixed disk not being
readable.
>

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