Not sure it will help, but you should at least try BootIt NG. Download the
program from www.bootitng.com. Use the download to create a bootable floppy
installation disk. Boot to the installer disk, then Cancel the installation.
That will drop you into "Maintenance Mode" whence you want to choose
"Partition Work".

Make sure all "Legacy USB" is enabled in BIOS, first. So long as you do not
actually install BING, there is no need to worry about Registration.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"R.Wieser" wrote in message
...
Hello all,

I've recently put a 40 GB drive in an external enclosure with an USB
connection, but have problems with using the drive.

When I try to partition the drive (using the standard W98se FDISK) it
comes
back as a a drive of only 6 GB (which probably has to do with the 32
GB-limit). Applying a number of patches related to drive-size problems
does
not seem to have any effect (although I could just not have applied the
right patch(es) ...)

I've allso tried a version of "efdisk", but it showed my drive as having
Zero cylinders (and would therefore not accept any partition-size input (I
think) ...).

Any insights and/or pointers to what I should do (before I go and tinker
around in the MBR with an Hex-editor and see what I get) ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser