Sounds like your not exiting fdisk and resetting the system after making the
changes, as this would cause the old partition to still be seen when a
format is attempted. Delete the old partitions, create your new one, exit
fdisk and then restart the system before attempting to format and see what
happens :-)


"Nathalie" wrote in message
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I tried several times and each time I deleted all what I could do in the
right order: logical first and principal the last one.

I know this hard disk could have only one partition (2,5 gig). One of the
old partition had 2 gig and the other had 500 megs.

Do you have a solution ?

"Andy Foster" a écrit dans le message
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:00:23 -0400, Nathalie wrote:

I used 2 partitions on my hard disk. I tried to delete those 2
partitions
and create only 1. With Fdisk, I deleted the old 2 partitions and
create
only one.

When I tried to format that one partition, the computer doesn't take
all
the space avalaible for that. It took the same space I had with the
old
principal partition.

What can I do ? I want to install Windows 98.

Thank you,

Are you sure you completely deleted both partitions ? Primary, Logical
in
extended, and Extended ? Did you check the Partition info afterwards ?

How big is the HDD ? What size partitions did it have ?

Andy