Carmen,
It looks like Linspire is occupying the rest of your hard disk and fdisk
isn't seeing it. I've seen this situation before. You will need to erase
the information at the beginning of the drive with a drive zeroing
utility. I use WDClear which you can find by googling, or I can send it
to you direct by email. It's not a very big program but you need to run
it from a bootable floppy. You should be aware that this procedure
requires the re installation of ME. You may also look for an open source
(free) partition manager which would allow you to remove the linspire
partition without destroying the ME installation but I've had mixed
results with this method.

Michael
carmen strickland wrote:

>--- Hugh Vandervoort <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Are you trying to dual-boot Linspire? Do you get a
>>Boot option that
>>includes Linspire? No
>>
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>>It sounds as though you created a 6.83 GB partition
>>and installed ME on
>>it, and Linspire is occupying the rest.
>>In the Run box, type Command
>>At the DOS prompt, Type Fdisk and select Option 4
>>(Display Partition
>>Information) and let us know what partitions are
>>shown.
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>partition= C:1 status:A type: pri dos
>mbytes: 7011 system fat32 usage 100%
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>>You may have to reinstall, depending on what you
>>want. If you want the
>>additional space for ME, you could just partition it
>>as FAT32 and use
>>the space for data.
>>
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>>Linspire has gotten praise from a lot of people
>>(I've never used it) and
>>you may want to investigate it before you revert  to
>>ME, which hasn't
>>gotten praise from anyone.
>>
>>
>
>Unfortunately for what I need my computer for,
>Linspire is not an option. I have to use windows 98 or
>above, and ME is what I have right now. I'll upgrade
>to XP when I can afford to though.
>
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>>
>>carmen strickland wrote:
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>>>I just  purchased a new computer with Linspire op
>>>
>>>
>>sys.
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>>>Since I have ME and it was not compatible, I had
>>>
>>>
>>to
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>>>partition the harddrive and reformat it before
>>>installing the Windows. I followed partition
>>>instructions, and partitioned for larger than 2gb
>>>harddrive, but when I click on my C drive it only
>>>shows 6.83 gb-this is supposed to be a 40 gb
>>>harddrive. Where is the rest of my harddrive
>>>
>>>
>>space?
>>
>>
>>>How do I access it, and please, please, don't tell
>>>
>>>
>>me
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>>>I have to start all over again.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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