I'm trying to clear all the partitions on an old compaq computer. it has a 2.5gb hd. 2gb are in the primary partition and there is a .5gb extended partition. Initially, there was no logical partition.

My friend (honest) just bought a new 20gb Maxtor hard drive.<BR><BR>He changed the BIOS to auto select for the drive. It (Award Plug and Play BIOS extension v1.0A) seems to recognise it ok - ' ...