Fdisk is on any boot disk. For the easiest, cleanest and most irreversible way to remove partitions, though, nothing beats zapdisk. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> (Fdisk is much safer, and can do the same thing in a few steps) For Windows 98 you would need Fdisk to create one or more new partitions; XP's setup program can delete/create a partition itself.