Lets start afresh with this problem..Here's what I've done/tried so far IBM 82.3gb hard drive Installed as master hard drive and only hard drive (Other h/d unplugged) Booted into BIOS, re-set the master and it identified it correctly as 82.3gb-also changed the slave to 'not installed' Restarted with boot disc Got to the a> prompt-typed in fdisk went to set a primary partition the integrity check went ok total disk space shows as 12993 mb!!!! Anyone ANY ideas what is going on? I'm really at my wits-end with this now Cheers Andy To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/