Hello. I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard
drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand
on that particular machine. This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047
mbytes. Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better
still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from
Windows again? I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C
seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, Pri Dos, 2
is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes).

Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this
out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? (Don't say
no...)

There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into
this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or
logical dos drive)

I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be
visible.

At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm
sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a
'logical dos drive'.

E is the CD drive, A the floppy. (I don't know quite enough about
this to know if you need telling this.)

If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably
without downloading anything else, that'd be great. Thanks in
advance.

p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it?