drive capacity problem

Ideas;

Old version of fdisk that does not support FAT32.

Drive was once partitioned on a system that only recognized 812MB.

EZ-Drive BIOS overlay is installed, and fdisk cannot read the drive properly.

Make sure that you have a recent version of fdisk.
Note: if you are running W95, your version may not support FAT32, and you will need to use FAT16, and split the drive into 3 or more drives.

If the drive is a used drive, and has no data of value to you on it, run fdisk with the mbr switch to clear the Master Boot Record
fdisk /mbr
Reboot, and run fdisk again to set your partitions.

If the drive has EZ-Drive, or some other BIOS overlay, try booting up from the drive, and watching for a prompt after the POST test.
Followthe prompt, and enter the drive overlay setup.

Chas

As mentioned above, my first suggestion would be to try to fdisk with a version of fdisk taken from a Windows 98 machine. If that does not work try delpart.

You can download it here: http://www.avitron.de/downloads/Tools_NT/Delpart/

This will delete partitions that fdisk cannot handle. Once this is done you can fdisk and create partitions in the normal way.

Was it in use before?
If it was not then just go to http://www.bootdisk.com/original.htm

Download the Windows 98 SE files, create the disks and run Fdisk from there. It will detect the whole disk and you'll be able to setup a full new partition.
If it was in use and you still want to save that information e-mail me back and I'll help you with it.

Good luck,

@lberto
alberto@pancarib.com

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