In a message dated 12/9/2000 9:06:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< It's been quite a while since my last clean OS install and so I'm due.
I'm running into a strange issue.  I want to fdisk /mbr my drives, reformat
and install Win98 clean.  In the past, at one time or another, I've used Boot
Magic to help manage dual duty between Linux and Windows on BOTH my C: and D:
drives.  Although all Linux partitions are long since deleted from this
system and Boot Magic uninstalled, I'm not completely sure my master boot
record is in order.

 When booting from a Win98 start up disk it seems that my C: drive becomes my
D: drive and visa versa.  I further confirm this when looking at the
partition information in fdisk after booting from the disk.  (I had planned
on runing fdisk /mbr from the start up floppy).  However, the C: is correctly
C: and D: is D: when in the Win98 GUI as well as when I run fdisk from the
GUI's command line.

 I'm a little afriad I don't know enough about the master boot record to
continue with my plan.  My data is backed up so I'm not concerned about data
loss but I want to be sure I don't mess up the drives beyond repair.

 I'm pretty sure my drives are correctly set to Master / Slave but it seems
both disks have active partitions (A in fdisk).

 Any comments, instructions or MBR explainations would be most welcome.

 TIA,

 Bill Nussbaumer >>

Hi,
  When you boot from the Win98 boot floppy, one of the things it does is
create a RAMdrive (which uses a drive letter), this is the probable reason
your normal drive letters are different.

HTH,
Peter Hogan
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