"cammos" wrote in message ...

I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all
the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with
tools, but in the end the only practical way was to re-
install Win98.

First I had problems using the standard boot disk that
came with the customers computer, as the boot disk did not
have format.com on the floppy. So, I created a setup
disk with the Win98 tools, and therfore was able to format
the drive c: and get rid of old infected files, or so I
thought. Unfrotunately, I only made the main active disk
650 mb. Now I am realsing that I forgot to make the
biggest disk possible. I still have approx 15 gb spare,
free, and unpartitioned.

You can use fdisk to create another partition in the free space,
but you might (or probably will) have problems with such a
small system partition. Take into account the swap file, the
temporary interent files, and the default program install location,
and your customer will run out of space, or in the case of the
paging file, memory,, very quickly. There are ways to relocate
some things, but who's going to be around to take care of it,
if they revert back to the default location for whatever reason.


Question is, how do I now create a drive (in the free
space) now that I have Win98 succesfully installed on such
a small primary drive?

fdisk create


I don't want to have to blow away the machine again, as
this would take some time. I want to deliver the computer
back to the customer ASAP.

Use a third party tool to resize the primary C:. Bootit NG can be
used. Run it from a DOS boot and cancel the install when prompted.