[newbie] large hard disk

[Joseph Bourque]

A few months ago I bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 40 gig hard drive.  I installed it with Windows 98 using the included Maxblast Plus software floppy.  The software included a BIOS overlay called EZ BIOS.  Everything installed correctly and gave me two 20 gig partitions labeled D: and E:  Whenever I booted up I saw the words EZ BIOS on the screen after the Compaq startup logo disappeared. (I have a Compaq Presario 4834 about 2 years old).   When I set up a dual boot with Linux, I put Linux on the Maxtor 40 gig drive.  I never did check to see how many gigs I was actually getting but the install seemed to indicate I had 40 gigs available.  Since then I've had to remove Linux temporarily.  I repartitioned and reformatted the drive using DOD fdisk, but fdisk tells me I only have 8 gigs available on that drive.  I no longer see the EZ BIOS at boot.  When I try to reformat with the Maxblast floppy it seems to partition the drive into two 20 gig non-dos partitions.  Fdisk shows those two non-dos partitions but still says I have only 8 gigs available. If I try to reformat the two partitions into DOS partitions, it will only let me have the 8 gigs.   Any ideas?   Thank you to the experts out there.   Joe