Sounds like you have a puter with a BIOS that has one of the maximum hard
drive size limit less than the 6.5 G.

Does the BIOS recognize the size properly?
What brand/model hard drive is it?
Go the web site for the hard drive manufacturer and look for their overlay
software to use with a BIOS with a size limitation issue.
Use the /mbr switch with Fdisk to correct the master boot record. WARNING,
you will loss all data on the hard drive..

Daniel Wysocki
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian C. <[log in to unmask]>
>
>I am in the process of upgrading some 30+ PCs and just encountered a Dell
>P266 running win98 and a 6.5GB HD. No virii detected.  Windows shows only
>the C: drive with less than the above-stated capacity.  Fdisk tells me that
>there are 2 partitions with logical drives assigned to extended partition.
>However, when I try to view/delete these drives, fdisk then reports no
>logical drives defined.  Okay, so I try to delete the extended partition;
>but I can't because there are logical drives defined, so I try to
>view/delete these logical drives.......well I hope you get the picture.

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