Thanks Edward, after I posted my problem and did a lot of reading, I was able
to find a solution by doing the following:
Click start, right clicked on my computer and select manage, storage, disk
manager, highlighted the drive I was having the problem with, right clicked
and followed the prompts to partition and format the drive. I failed to
mention in my original post that I had taken the drive and put it in a case
to use as an external usb drive for storage and backup. I didn't want to go
through the hassle of mounting the drive inside my computer and disabling my
C drive in order to repartition the drive. I had tried to do this several
times over the past year to get rid of the 8 gig partition. I had even tried
using the Windows 98SE bootable floppy and running fdisk....as you suggested
in your post. I didn't realize that a drive (even an external drive) could
be reformatted using the disk manager feature in Windows XP. I had written
SeaGate about my problem and while at their website (
www.seagate.com) started
reading their troubleshooting section and found there was an easier way to
get rid of the 8 gig partition which they had posted on their site.
I appreciate your quick response....thanks so much for your trouble.
Mariah
