Glad you got it sorted. The reason all your space was not used initially
when you created the C: partition is due to one of two factors. You failed
to say yes to large drive support when running fdisk (most probable) or you
ran into the 2 gb bios limitation that existed years ago.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"poachedeggs" wrote in message
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I managed to sort things out about twenty seconds after i'd sent the
original posting here, funnily enough. The D partition of the hard
drive had failed to show because it was not formatted. I did my usual
potentially harebrained thing of guessing and tapping in stuff that
could have gone wrong.




On Nov 27, 12:14 am, "Ron Badour" wrote:
Use your floppy disk to create a logical partition inside the extended
partition. Use all the available space.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"poachedeggs" wrote in message

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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?