Win 98 SE/Athlon/ I have a recently new 20g HD which had win 98 on it, then I began install of win 2000. I decided not to finish the Win 2k install. I F3’d out then restarted and removed the partition in Win 2k from within the install procedure. I'm trying to reinstall win 98 on a clean disk now. I had lockup problems within the Win 98 startup diskette procedure to partition and format until I tried “fdisk /mbr” get to FDISK/create a primary dos partition. Many tries later I finally got through to partition and format only to find I only have a 2 gig drive – not 20 as original. Scandisk.exe – no problem. Maybe Im not getting all the win2k files off? I only have a 2 gig hard drive now. With either delpart.exe or the fdisk /mbr I am able to access some of the hdd. I cannot find or see or read or delete whatever it is that occupies the rest of this 20 gig hdd. Scandisk (either as a slave to a working system or as a master with fdisk) shows no problems- but it is only scanning 2gb. Ive always selected “large” disk support and went into the bios to try all the options there too. No Luck. Help would be much appreciated here. Thanks much, Rivers

Try again with Fdisk without the /mbr. Use option 4 to see all existing partitions, then use option 3 to delete them all, then option 1 to create a new partition (either 100% or some of it). The fact that it stopped at 2Gb sounds too much like it did not allow for large partition (ie. FAT instead of FAT32) but you said that was already selected !!

Hi, when you tried to open FDISK it asked you if you want the support for large disk partition, if you have said no there it will give you 2 GB only (FAT16) go back again in FDISK select option 4 to view all partitions and it will tell you what kind of FAT you have it must be FAT32 to show the 20 GB , you could also go to Accessories/ system tools/ drive converter and it will convert you FAT16 to FAT32. good luck