An older computer of mine, a pentium II 350 system with a 4318 mb harddrive working under DOS 6.2 has to be setup in a network to conect my printers without a USB connection. The harddrive had 4 partitions of 1gb each. To install windows 98 on it I want it to have 1 partition, but DOS FDISK gives me a maximum C: partition of 2047mb and a D: partition of 2071mb. Now I want to format it, C: and D: but how? I know how to format te whole drive in one go but not in two partitions. My question(s) is(are): How do I create one partion on my harddrive, or how do I format these two partitions. I hope someone out there knows what to do. Regards Gezina11 The info abouth my harddrive: SIZE 4318 CYLS 525 HEAD 255 LANDZ 8373 SECTOR 63 MODE LBA

Boot on 98se boot floppy and use fdisk to make one partition. No 2047MB limit. BTW, you don't format entire physical drives. You format partitions / logical drives. format c: format d: and so on If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Gezina11, be aware, you said "harddrive working under DOS 6.2". You WILL NOT be able to see partitions larger than 2GB using DOS 6.2.

Hi, "Now I want to format it, C: and D: but how? I know how to format the whole drive in one go but not in two partitions." With a MS-DOS6.2 or MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk, first "FDISK, then "FORMAT", you will then have two paritions of 2047MB each. FDISD will create the paritions. Format will format then as FAT16. CoffeeBreak

"To install windows 98 on it I want it to have 1 partition" mm'kay?? Pretty much a dead post anyways, but if you're gonna answer them, reading comprehension is an asset. The answer has already been provided - here's that handy fdisk link to go with it Sure, FAT16 will work, but as one (1) partition using 100% of the drive, gotta be FAT32. Fortunately that can be accomplished using a Windows 98 bootdisk (to install windows) Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949