OK, I'm feeling pretty stupid right now. I broke the cardinal rule of "giving all the information" by not. But I am ready to take it on the chin and move on. I'm a novice, what can I say.
I discovered
late last night that this computer has two hard drives in it. I was doing the low level format on the Seagate drive. When info it gave during the process, disclosed this.
The primary hard drive is up in the top of the chassis, I had not even seen it. It was up by the two cd rom drives. I was just seeing the lower one which was the Seagate Barracuda. I was just not looking for two hard drives when I was seeing the one at the bottom of the stack clearly. Now I know why I was seeing a different capacity of drive space (higher) that was not matching the Seagate's info. This has two cd-rom drives in it, a zip drive floppy, standard floppy and the two hard drives, and some device that has a speaker on it, mounted in the front of the chassis. Its packed.
In my defense, it has big round plastic sheathed cables running everywhere in the case. No ribbon cables. You can't see crap.
Anyway the primary master drive is a IBM DLTA-307030, 30.7 GBytes. The primary slave drive Seagate Barracuda ST-320430A, 20.4 GBytes. These are fed I'm assuming by the PCI controller I see mounted in a PCI slot on the motherboard. Its marked, PCI Local Bus, Ultra 100, Promise Technology, which by the way I do have the driver for.
What is the point of two hard drives and can I just remove one to make life easier? I have no idea which of these I loaded 98SE to. Which of the two hard drives should I keep and make the primary master drive?
Then I can start from scratch
again.
Thanks,