The Dell System 200 that I unearthed in my parents’ basement in September 2020 has a Seagate ST-251 hard drive. According to the file dates, the last time anyone used the drive was June 1994. The drive was partitioned into a primary DOS 31 MB. and an extended DOS 8 MB. (This accounted for all the 42 MB. space, according to FDISK.) I don’t know why those partitions were the sizes they were. Both partitions were perfectly usable.
Tonight I deleted the partitions using FDISK, and tried to create a single partition of 42 MB. FDISK keeps telling me that the maximum size available is 31 MB. I used SpeedStor and did a scan, added the few bad sectors that came up to the defect list, and did a low-level format. Still, FDISK keeps telling me there is only 31 MB. available. Just before I did the deletion of the 8 MB. partition, I tried doing a dir on it, but DOS gave an error. So I decided to finally repartition, which I had been planning to do for weeks.
I am using DOS 6.22 and SpeedStor 6.5.
Tonight I deleted the partitions using FDISK, and tried to create a single partition of 42 MB. FDISK keeps telling me that the maximum size available is 31 MB. I used SpeedStor and did a scan, added the few bad sectors that came up to the defect list, and did a low-level format. Still, FDISK keeps telling me there is only 31 MB. available. Just before I did the deletion of the 8 MB. partition, I tried doing a dir on it, but DOS gave an error. So I decided to finally repartition, which I had been planning to do for weeks.
I am using DOS 6.22 and SpeedStor 6.5.