Someone suggested opening your My Computer icon on the desktop and Right clicking the C: drive icon to confirm the exact FAT (file allocation table) in use. My guess is that it will say FAT32, since the drive shows 3.x GB. Go check this out. The other suggestion about dealing with non-dos partitions that won't delete in DOS Fdisk is decent one. If the former owner had a dual boot configuration on the hard drive, he or she would have installed the non-DOS operating system (Linux or BSD or ??? operating systems) on the remaining free disk space. Linux, for example, has its own fdisk utility and formats its partition(s) using Native Linux and Swap partition designations. To reclaim the disk space used by Linux, I have booted Linux from a Linux boot disk (or a Linux installation CD) and used the Linux fdisk ( or alternately Disk Druid, a graphical partition utility on most Linux distributions) to set the non-dos partition to a DOS (of the Windows) type partition. I would strongly suggest that you back up the C: drive in case something goes wrong (I am speaking from experience). You can use a Linux (Mandrake 6.0 or Red Hat 6 or 7.2, etc.) installation disk to actually carry out the partitioning changes on the non-dos partition. Once you write the changes to disk, cancel the installation by removing the Linux installation disk and rebooting the system into Windows safemode. Linux Disk Druid is the easiest to use, but it can be a little confusing. The Tab key moves you from one button item to another. Most importantly, once you've tabbed onto the partitions, use the down arrow key to move off the first partition (hda1 Windows DOS partition ) and select the second partition listed. Next, tab down to EDIT and hit enter to edit the second partition. In the EDIT window, select the TYPE area and select the DOS 16 bit >= 32 as your new file type. Hit enter and tab down to the OK button. Double check that you are NOT DOING all this on the existing hda1 Windows partition, and hit enter to save your partition changes to disk. (Linux for Dummies, 2nd addition give a decent description of how to use both Disk Druid and Linux fdisk work) After the reboot, DOS FDISK should now show your existing C: primary (and active) partition and a second dos partition for the rest of the disk. Delete this second partition and create a new one. When you are done partitioning, go back to the command line and format the new partition. Chances are your new disk area will be labeled as D: and your CD-rom drive will become E: . Typing D: at the command line and hitting enter should give you D: drive with some kind of message regarding the need to format the drive (I don't remember exactly how the system responds). From the command line type FORMAT D: and hit enter. This should kick off the formatting process. When format is done, reboot the system into Windows 98 and check to see if D: drive is available for use. Good luck, Jerry Nickerson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Sayer" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] 10g recognised as 2g in windows The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com