Disk Druid or fdisk damages the Fujitsu MP3035AT HD during installation. Also occurred with RH 5.2 and Mandrake installations. The HD required the Fujitsu hard drive erase utility to clear the partition table. Red Hat installs only if it has the entire hard drive available, or if it has /dev/hda1 available. It would be nice to have a 10MB lilo boot partition, Win9X, linux swap, and RH linux partitions, all on the same hard drive. The BIOS started with NORMAL access, but was changed to LBA to keep the max. cylinder below 1024.
Need more information about what exactly fdisk and Disk Druid did to the disk. Not able to tell from your description of what exactly happened.
closed, lack of input.