Hello everyone, Even though it was not my intention to actually start using OS/2 for day to day stuff (thats what i've got Linux for), I decided to give it a try, and install it. I got a hold of and unopened copy of Warp 3 from my uncle and attempted the installation, only to find FDISK freaking out about my hard drive. I looked up my problem on the internet, found it was a common one, downloaded IDEDASD.EXE,and tried to update Disk 1. The files didn't all fit, and after deleting certain files that ibm.com said it was safe to delete in order to make room, it still didn't work. So I got a hold of Warp 4, and found the exact same problem. I used IDEDASD.exe to update my floppy (this time it fit), and found that "OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk...". From reading posts on computing.net and browsing ibm.com, it seems that lots of people have trouble before they update, but no one complains about it still not working afterwords. I'm sorry if this question has been answered before (I couldn't find it), but what do I do now??? I have two hard drives, the first one is an 8GB hard drive that I don't really use. The second one is 30GB and that is strictly for linux. I have one partition for root, one partition for /home and one partition for swap. The 8GB drive used to have Windows, but now I just have a 2GB FAT16 partition with DOS 6.22, that I want to install OS/2 over. For now, all I want is to get Warp 4 to install. I'll worry about sharing the drive with Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and MS-DOS 6.22 latter. (Thats what I eventually want to do) The whole drive is only 1027 cylinders, so everything in the first 2GB is for sure below 1023. (Or is it??? You tell me, is this my problem? Is my drive really only 1027 cylinders?) My computer is home-grown (I built it myself), and it has a Gigabyte motherboard, its a 550MH K6-2, and I don't use SCSI. Thanks for any help you can give. Joel

Joel, I have updated Warp 3 install disks I think. I can e-mail you them if you wish (if I can locate them of course).

there are correct updated install disks, i would have to look for url. as for your fat partition it was made by what ver of fdisk. i find often partitions made by windows don't end on a cylinder which gives error messages, even with partition magic. often the solution is to delete the partition & let os/2 make it's own.