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From: acs034@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (B. Latterri Sivaraman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help
Summary: Hard Disk,FDISK problems
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.032942.18686@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 03:29:42 GMT
Sender: acs034@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (B. Latterri Sivaraman)
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
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I have a small problem.  I am trying to upgrade my ibm 386 compat to
DOS 4.01 from DOS 3.3.  I have an 120 meg IDE hard drive with Western
Digital controller.  I want to create 1 large 120 meg partition.

I used fdisk from DOS 3.3 to delete my logical drives and then my
extended partition, then my primary partition.  Then I booted my
system with DOS 4.01 and Created on Primary partition of 120 meg.  
Then reformat the disk drive and transfer the DOS 4.01 system files to
the hard drive.  It reveals I have 130 meg free.  Nothing unusual.

Then I reboot the system and I see I have only 33 meg free on my C:
drive instead of 120.  The weird part is that the extended partitions
that I deleted with DOS 3.3 are STILL THERE.  And then sure enough I
checked my files and they were all STILL THERE, and all the programs
that I had on the extended partition worked.  Nothing had changed,
except for the fact that drive C was empty except for the system
files.  All this after formatted the ENTIRE disk

Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?  I followed all the
instructions in the DOS manual perfectly.   Replies by email or this newsgroup.


Thanks in advance

Ken L. Sivaraman
acs034@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
BSIV@GMUVAX.GMU.EDU
BSIV@GMUVAX.BITNET