Well, I'm sorry, your messages do come across as being from a simpleton.
Earlier you whined that you didn't want to run an EXE from Microsoft. Might
not be safe, and all. But FDISK *is* an EXE. So all this about not wanting
to run an EXE is just so much B.S., right? Something you heard, but didn't
hear quite right, probably because you were too damned busy arguing with
whomever it was that told you the real story. Like you're doing now.

And neither of us even knows whether that would work -- is FDISK really a
stand-alone app, or does it require supporting functions provided by other
files? Maybe, as somewhat indicated by the package MS *does* offer, the
versions of FDISK are not interchangeable. ME version only works on an ME
startup disk, Win98SE version only works with Win98SE floppies... Or maybe
that's only when operating in Windows, and you can throw any old version of
FDISK onto the floppy and it will work. I don't know. Do you? I'd have a
hard time testing, too, because who know what kinds of problems might be
involved, and I'm not good enough or trained in analyzing HDs and partitions
to know whether there are any problems or not, problems that might not show
up until later, for instance, when it might trash your entire system, have
your partition just disappear. Are you that good?

Look, you were offered a fix, I've explained as well I can all the questions
you came up with. Personally, I wouldn't put a copy of ME's FDISK on my
Win98SE startup floppy and use it to partition a disk UNLESS Microsoft told
me to do that. And they don't. They suggest you upgrade your entire system
to accept the new FDISK version, and that procedure is different depending
one whether it's for Win98 Gold or Win98SE, and the ME file is not the same
as either of the others. I don't know any better, and neither do you, so who
are we to argue with them. I have to assume they have good reason for doing
what they did, especially since all the different versions of FDISK involved
aren't the same size and therefore aren't the same.

Don't be so coy. What DO you do for a living? Lawyer, maybe?

Chap = girl? Not in any English I've ever heard.

That was Dan's first appearance in the group in many, many months (under his
own name, anyway.) There are any number of Dan's in the world and I even
though I was fairly certain, I wanted to make sure before calling him to the
carpet. It is also my habit to answer questions, I've answered over 20,000
different cases in my time in these 98 NGs (ten years) (well over 50,000
posts altogether.) I tend to do it by habit.

That was really Dan. As for my qualities, you are not qualified to judge
them. You're a simpleton who jumps to conclusions based upon incomplete
information. For example, if you want to know the story of Dan, you'd have
to go back and read about 6 years of off-on postings, recognize his
sickness, realize how his presence in these groups isn't good for anyone.
Not for him, not for the regulars who are here to answer users' questions,
and mostly not for the people like you who come looking for answers.

You're a simpleton to think that it's a good idea to have a large disk that
your old FDISK can't handle, and NOT replace it in your system (the Command
folder.) You're a JERK for whining so insistingly that Microsoft do what YOU
want, the way YOU want them to, and the rest of the world that depends on
them be damned. Fact is, I think you're lucky MS still provides that patch
at all, in any form. Support for Windows 9x ended a long time ago, most of
the support articles have been pulled. most of the downloads have been
pulled.

No need to thank me.

You're stuttering. You're also a simpleton and a jerk, as noted in my
previous response. And that last sentence makes absolutely no sense.

I don't WANT to know the results. If you follow instructions, you'll get
good results and will be able to trust that the things you DON'T know about
are all properly configured, etc. But, of course, you aren't going to follow
instructions and you're going to foul it all up royally. I don't want to
hear about your incompetent failures. Besides, you aren't qualified to
report results that mean anything, as per my comments in the previous post.

OH! And let me add one last insult: You're an INGRATE to ask for advice and
then not follow up on suggestions. I'm not talking about downloading and
installing the patch, I'm talking about simply opening the file with WinZip
or similar and reading the contents. To anyone who's not a simpleton, the
files inside that EXE tell a story, one that explains a lot about why MS
distributed the patch in the manner they did. Or was that too difficult a
task for you?

Seriously, taken together with your one post in the Win98.Gen_Discussion
group, what you really are is a whiner who wants to make himself seem more
knowledgeable by slamming MS and Bill, etc. Well, combined with your obvious
lack of knowledge about computers in general, all it does is make you appear
an incompetent fool, a simpleton.

So, which is it. Are you an incompetent simpleton or just a jackass?