Whats happened here is that there was a "fat32X" partition on the drive as
well don't ask me how it got there but when I was in tech support for
Norton Utilities we ran into this every once and a while. the action that
you took works. I always used disk edit to remove the offending partition
from the drive.

Brian Coe
CM Productions

At 07:28 PM 5/13/99 , you wrote:
>We'd been having problems with one of our P233 computers (QDI motherboard,
>4GB hard drive, Award BIOS) when we discovered it was reporting two hard
>drives C: & D:.  We hadn't added another drive or partitioned the original,
>so we were stumped.  We were about to format and start over via Fdisk when I
>remembered we could check the partition info in Fdisk.  It reported two
>primary DOS partitions of the same size as the hard drive.  We deleted D:
>and everything seems back to normal.  Is it possible to have the same drive
>as two primary partitions of the same drive?  Did I even ask that question
>correctly!?
>
>chuck finnigan
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