Hi, I think you will be safe as you apply FDISK to NEW harddisks: The problem is "only" that if you get a read error while reading the existing partition scheme, our FDISK has the stupid strategy to write a new empty partition table as "automatic solution". Your new PCs should not show read errors and writing an empty partition table will not cause problems as your PCs are still empty anyway. However, I recommend that you first test whether FDISK recognizes your harddisks - I assume that all 30 PCs are the same style of hardware. It will probably work better if you load only HIMEM but do not load EMM386 before. Whether it will work better or worse with UDMA2 loaded, no idea. At least FORMAT will be fast anyway, as the default is NOT to wipe the whole drive - it defaults to just writing empty FAT and root directory data.
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