By the sounds of things when you formatted the drive - you didn't install the operating system. In order to do this you either need the 'sys' command; or the 'format' command. If you have 'sys' run: sys a: c: If you have 'format' (no copy of 'sys') run: format c: /s That way it will transfer the Win98 bootup information to the drive.
A good utility for resizing FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, Linux SWAP partition (creating as well) is Partition Magic. I think you need at least version 5 - this will resize all of the above partitions, as well as create them - it is very very efficient at doing this job. I've used it on a number of occasions with my primary Linux partition to increase it's size and havn't had any problems or data lose. Jolyon
