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I suspect what you're seeing is the difference between 1 million bytes and 1 megabyte (1024 X 1024 = 1,048,576 bytes). Most manufacturers rate their hard drives in million-byte units, but the DOS fdisk command shows the capacity in megabyte units. Therefore: 540,000,000 bytes / 1,048,576 = 514.98 Megabytes The chkdsk command will show the actual byte count, however. So if you divide the drive into two equal partitions and format one under DOS, you should see about 270,000,000 bytes available. I have a desktop with an 850 million byte Western Digital drive set up as a single partition. Fdisk shows it as 813 Megabytes, but chkdsk shows it as 850,874,368 bytes. Paul -------o------- Paul Walukewicz paulwal@mindspring.com > Date: Fri, 05 Sep 97 20:32:30 -0700 > From: "josh" <jg@izap.com> > To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu > Subject: TP500 & 540 MB HDD, Need Help Partioning!!! > > Hello, I am trying to install a 540 MB in my ThinkPad 500. I can only get > it to see a max of 515MB. > I am losing 25MB! > I know there is a trick but haven't been able to do it. > > My plans are to split my drive in 2 partions (270 & 270MB) , I want to load > DOS/WIN95 on one half & LINUX on the other half. > > How do I get the TP500 to see th ewhole 540MB? > > thanks! > > jg@izap.com >