No Partition Magic has been used in this hard disk. It used to be a Win98 and then became just an extra 10 GB partition for WinXP. So I've never done anything beyond having a single partition in it. I also tried Fedora Core to see if it was a Yast problem, but it also gets the same reading. So there is something wrong in how the size gets read by linux, since for some reason windows can read it properly. So I'm open to any ideas. You sugested low level format. Any linux tool that is very good at it? The other hard disk with the NTFS partitions will be left intact. I just mentioned it for completeness. The hd where suse will be installed already has no partitions. Before trying suse it used to be a single 10GB NTFS partition. After I saw that problem, I went to Windows, formated it with FAT32 and when I went back to the suse install it showed a 10GB FAT32 partition (/hdb1) inside a 2GB disk (/hdb) which of course makes no sense at all. Thanks for the help ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs