>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.

Don't you think this is more the problem of those who did the installation than MS?

In my opinion, they should know this. If they didn't, they should have try before on a test machine and see that their solution doesn't work. BTW, it's normal that a new file system is not seen by any other previous version of OS. It's the same for NT file system.

BTW, even without your need to use Win 3.x, FAT32 is not the best solution. There still are a lot of programs that access directly the disk, so, you'll end with a lot of useless software.

You may want to check this address:
http://sysdoc.pair.com/
for more info about FAT32, as well for almost any hardware concern. I found it extremly usefull several times. The info seems to be remarkably acurate and extensive.

Vlad