I'm trying to dual boot win2k & win98SE, however everything I've read in the MS knowledge base says that the prmary partition for Win98 shoud be FAT16 otherwise it won't work. Well I installed both OS's before knowing this and up until very recently I was having no problems. Now I've gotten S.M.A.R.T. errors telling me that drive is about to die and I'm also having problems installing software. So I'm trying now to fdisk (with the win98 startup disk) the drive to remove all partitions and start over with a FAT16 partition. Fdisk isn't working, something with the NTFS partition (I'm thinking) is keeping it from working at all so I tried it on another HD and although I made the partition 2G's its FAT32 and I never got any option to change it to FAT16. Is there some way to do this on my own and is my other drive really going to fail or its it errors generated b/c the DOS partition isn't FAT16 as recomended? Thanks for your help!