gee.. thanks merlin. that was instantaneous and great
DM did the trick - it wrote some signature - now have 74.56 GB unallocated space - read somewhere that the 5 GB loss is due to File system overhead (but i haven't formatted it with any FS)
10 GB one is listed as basic
80 GB as dynamic
unfortunately i can't give the command format x: /fs:ntfs from cmd as it says it cannot find the drive specified.
tried the BIOS update initially,
but the BIOS version is so old Intel has stopped interactive support
and raptor... the OS installed here is Windows 2000
another amateur question :
how do i format the new disk such that i can install both linux and windows on it.
available : Fedora Core cds , Win98 cd ( read somewhere that one had to install linux first and then windows ??)
thnx
av