Hi Pete, You got the wrong person

I do agree with what you say about eilygre 's problem.
eilygre, OS/2, eCS does not read/write fat32 natively and has never been able to format it. It will install on a fat32 partition with a lot of problems, as you have found.
Your best approach to solving the problem is to get an evaluation copy of DFSee - on hobbes - and use that to delete the partition and then recreate it as an HPFS partition. You should then find that your eCS install will see it and you should then be able to install as normal.
ivan