It's possible you have some remnants of an old partition in the partition
table on the disk.  If you have web access, download wddiag from
http://www.wdc.com/support/ftp/wddiag/wd_diag.exe
and write zeros to the drive.  That should solve your problem.  If you
don't have web access, ask me to send it to you through email privately.

Dan Dexter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Nick Robinson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 5:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive: Fdisk not seeing full 6.4 g
>
> At 12:52 PM 4/6/1998     Iz wrote:
> >The problem here is as you can see -- to quote :
> >" and after deleting the pri dos and ext partitions, I went
> >back to set primary dos again.  To the option "use all disk" I said N(o)
and it   > >then showed 1811 Mbytes as total available."  unquote
--cut--
> Iz,
> I hope you are on to something here, but the *first* time I used fdisk
> and had that option and choose "NO" it logically showed me the full
> amount and then asked me how much (in mb or %) did I want for *that*
> partition.
>
> Don't think the program arbitarily chooses how big your first partition
> can be.
>
> I am using OSR2 and understand about going back and using the remaining
> as an extended partition and creating logical drives within it.  But it
> gave me *only* 1811mb to  _start_ with, not 6g like it should have and
> did the first time.
>
> Will fool with it again Wednesday and see what happens.
>
> Thanks,   Nick R.