Hi Karen,

I don't know when or how you created the logical drive d:, but
with 1508 MB free you should be able to create additional
logical drives with fdisk to use that 1508 MB. It's been awhile
since I used fdisk, so I'll leave it to someone more familiar with
fdisk to give you the details.

On 27 Oct 00, at 23:13, karen lewellen wrote:

> hi folks,
> well i would have used "you're not going to believe this,"  but
> its already a thread.
> i was talking over the inner workings of my computer tonight to
> someone who had never seen a bios and so forth.
> i discovered some strange things,
> first i have a d drive, not formated, apparently, as when i try
> to say do a directory, it says "drivenot ready,"  however, if i
> do a "d:" i can get there with no affects.
> 2, after seeing this, i took a look at fdisk
> according to fdisk, i have a primary partition and an extended
> one with the following logical drive
> d: unknown 126mg, 33%
>
> that is paraphrased,
> and the real kicker?
>
> the remaining size of the extended partition is 1508 mg or so.
>
> what is all this?
> last try through,i thought we could not use the drive entirely.
> now, i whould note that it says that the primary partition is at
> 100%
> am i losingmy mind, and what can i do withthis?
> i mean, if i tried to let fdisk play with the rest of the extend
> partition, what would happen?
> losing my heads, cylenders, and sectors over this lol
> kare

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