fdisk windows NT

[jimhannon]

I just got a Older Dell Pentium II 266 for cheap. It came with win NT, I am going to put on winme. The problem is I formatted c:\ then went to fdisk, (don't ask why, in that order!), The hard drive is 6.4 gig but c: is 2047 fat 16 pri dos, with extended dos 4103. There is no logical drives defined but it says I can't delete the extended dos partition while logical drives exist. When I try to delete the logical drive it says all logical drives deleted in the extended dos partition. I'm stuck.... How can I get to the full capacity of my hard drive?
Jim

[glc]

Determine the manufacturer of the hard drive - then download the setup/diag software from their website. Use the "write zeros" option and wipe the drive clean with it. This will remove everything and make it ready for fdisk.

Western Digital - Data Lifeguard tools
Maxtor - Maxblast or Maxdiags
IBM - Drive Guide
Seagate - SeaTools (I think)

[offline]

Am I missing something here?

Why cant you just enable LBA in bios so you can run FAT32 and get the whole 6.4 to show up instead of 2.1.

[jimhannon]

Thanks for the response glc, I did just that right after I did the post. It's a Maxtor, went and downloaded Maxblast.exe and ran the program, worked like a charm.
thanks