Thought I'd relate a problem I had and the eventual resolution in case someone else runs into it. I crashed my hard disk :-( and the shop installed a 4GB new drive and promised they'd partition it, format it and add Win95 for me. Terrific? Wrong.

They used Win95 release 2 (a free upgrade, they said) and formatted the disk partitions with the new FAT32. When I restored from my tape backup, only a few of my 32-bit programs worked. Modems and printers were flaky even after being removed and reinstalled. Worst of all, I could no longer dual-boot to Win 3.11, which is needed for some clients. Any OS older than this Win95 release couldn't see the drive formatted as FAT32. So now I had one hard disk visible to Win 3.1x and the other hard disk visible to Win 95. And data on both that needed sharing.

First diagnosis was problems with Release 2, so I reinstalled from my original Win95 CD and restored everything a second time No improvements.

I ended up re-formatting and partitioning the hard drive (choose the default "N" when FDISK asks if you want large drive support). Then, of course, the THIRD restore. I'm still having printer problems, but everything else is OK. Total time: 17 hours over 3 days, much stress, one missed deadline (understanding client, thank goodness) and total disgust at MS.

In the available KB articles, it clearly states that drives formatted with FAT32 won't be visible to any other OS, including DOS6.2x, Win3.x, etc. Why couldn't they have put this on the SCREEN to read before you start FDisk. The shop who installed it KNEW about my dual-boot, they helped me plan it last year, but they didn't know about these problems.

Hope this will help someone else,
Barbara