If you read this entire message, you should understand why it is
cross-posted.
I have two PC's on a network (router). #1 OS is W98; #2 has a
swappable drive bay where I put W2000 Pro OR W98 as the primary drive.
I want to be able to access the 4GB slave drive in #2 either from
W2000 or across the network from #1 (W98). When W2000 in #2 would not
recognize the slave as a formatted drive, I checked it with fdisk and
it reported the partition info as a FAv 32 ! drive (exclamation
included in info). I put the W98 drive into #2 and it read the disk
fine. So I fdisk'ed it and formatted it as a FAT32.

Everything was OK for a day until I accessed the slave files in #2
across the network using #1. All of a sudden W2000 would not recognize
the drive. Checked it with fdisk again and it reports the partition
info as "FAv 32 !"!! In case you're wondering, no I am not using
Outlook (which I understand uses files with a .fav extension) and no
email programs were run at either end of the network during this
screw-up. BTW, Windows Explorer in 98 again reports the drive is a
FAT32.

So, generally, anybody know what is going on? Have you FAT32 guys ever
heard of a FAv 32 ! format? Any takers from the networking forum? I'm
stumped and frustrated. I need to know why my slave drive in #2 is
being altered.