Bill:

CHKDSK is the command line if the hard disk is formatted. fdisk will let for format the disk (and will let you erase any linux partitions later) but I don't know that it shows the hard drive size unless you partition the hard drive.

But why bother. During boot enter the Dell motherboard setup (F2 on my Dells). This should tell you the hard drive size.

Of just go for it. As I said, fdisk can be used to remove any partitions that you create, even linux partitions. And if you don't have fdisk on your emergency boot disk, you can boot using the Win98 CD, choose boot with CD support (not install) and it will put fdisk on the ram disk it creates.

chuck