1 GB is missed

We're you doing a clean install by doing fdisk? You may have formatted the drive and turned it into a fat16 drive which only can reconogize 2gb as the biggest drive. You may have to go back into fdisk and reformat the drive as a fat32 drive so that it will see the whole size of the disk. exit windows to a dos prompt, at c:\type fdisk then when it asks you if you want to enable large disk support choose yes. You will then need to reformat the drive then reinstall the os.

It sounds like the hard drive added a 2nd partition for Win2000. You would have to do FDISK and delete the 2nd partition and then reformat the hard drive and then re-install the operating system. One thing to remember is that each Operating System uses 2 gb just for the operating system. From the looks of it you would need for hard drive to have 2 operating systems.
Also, you are getting the message that asks which windows (ME) or (2000) do you want to start because your hard drive was configured to "DUAL BOOT" and ask which system you want to use.

After saving all your data;

Power-on with a start-up disk.
Select the command prompt only, at the c:> then type/select the following and press enter after each option:

fdisk
delete partition
delete primary partition
delete extended logical partitions
create primary dos partiton
use entire volume
restart
c:> format c:

Then reinstall your operating system

Normally FDISK will do the job. However, I have had times that it wouldn't and had to write zeros to the hard drive which should allow you to partition and reformat. You can get the utility from the Gateway website. Here is the link to Gateway's utility to write zero's http://www.gateway.com/support/product/drivers/hdd/index.shtml

You have to make a bootdisk (start-settings-control panel-add/remove programs-startup-create bootdisk). Copy the utility to the floppy, reboot the system from the floppy and select minimal boot that will take you to an A:\> prompt. Run the utility by typing gwscan and press enter, from the menu, select write zero's and hit enter. This takes a little while but it also verifies the drive to make sure there isno corruption. After it is finished you should be able to partition, format and then load your operating system. Hope this helps.

Dana

From your answers it would sound like you have a primary partition and a logical partition (in an extended partition)
you must delete the partitions in the correct order !!!!!
delete logical partitions first, followed by extended partition, and lastly primaries.
Once you have deleted all partitions get out of fdisk. reboot, restart fdisk and make sure you answer yes to large hard disk support. NOW you can create a single (FAT32) partition.

A.C.

It sounds like not all of you drive has signatures, if you boot up and start to go through the Advanced server setup you will be able to reconfigure your drive and create one partition of the full size of the drive. Using Fdisk will not give you thesame options you will get from the advanced server setup (regarding drive configuration).
Once you have created the partition you can quit the setup and install Millenium but you will need to run "fdisk mbr" to clear your master boot record.

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