I bought a IBM 14GB HD and it created 4 partitions with Partition magic.
The first partition is in FAT16 while the rest in FAT32. It works fine
under Windows 98. There were 2 occassions so far that the whole 13GB HD
disappeared and when I checked with Partition Magic, it showed up as 2
volumes One appeared as Type 41 (or 44 I don't quite remember now) with
volume name unknown (10MB only). The other appeared as Free Space but it
has only 717MB. The rest of space is gone. I have to use Ontrack Disk
Manager (downloaded from IBM) to reset everything from scratch. (It took a
while to recreate all partitions under Partition magic.)

The first time this happened was when I tried to boot from a Win95 boot
disk. The second time was when I tried to install NT Server 4 from a
partition in FAT32 (by copying the CD to HD). I suspect that win95 boot
disk was created in Win95A so it didn't understand FAT32. NT Server 4 was
installed fine since I reboot to DOS under Win98, but after it rebooted to
finish the installation, it couldn't read FAT32. What I don't understand is
why the partition were all deleted when there were an error occured. While
my other drive (with Win98 on it) has a partition in FAT32 and that
partition was fine when this happened. I am afraid that I might have missed
something in installation. I have already lost 1 hour work which was saved
in one of the partitions lost.

Any suggestions? Should I format them differently?

Thanks for the help and have a nice and productive new year....


Changhsu Liu
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