Thanks to those who responded positively! I've managed to "fix" this, using the Ranish Partition Manager (gratis, via www.ranish.com). It pointed out to me that although the partition size was 10Gb, the "maximum size" was 20Gb - whatever that means. So I simply tabbed to the relevant field and made the maximum size 10Gb also. W98 now thinks I have a 10Gb C: partition. BTW, Ranish is Linux-friendly too. Cheers, Marc.

From: "Marc Bouron" <marc_bouron@hotmail.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] (off topic) HD size wrong in W98 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:57:00 -0000

Apologies for a slightly off-topic subject, but I guess it's something that people on this list might have dealt with in the past.

I'm building a new system. Sadly, step number one is to install Windows 98! It has a 20Gb UDMA drive which I used fdisk to split into two (SuSE will go on another disk later - not yet installed).

Whilst I have two 10Gb partitions (one in an extended partition), W98 reports the size of the C: drive as 20Gb! Clearly something is not quite right and I guess W98 may well get into trouble later. (D: is reported correctly as 10Gb.)

Is there something I've missed, or some way to convince W98 that I have two 10Gb partitions?

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