My bench/test PC had Win 10 for testing but I did not like the forced upgrades.
I skipped the "free" upgrade and it just plugged along with occasional notices to upgrade but then the boot drive failed.
Having a box of some 25 drives I just wanted one to boot with Win98SE, just for fun, Win ME or Win 7.
A 250GB drive looked good but the install with Win 98SE removed the partition but then could not proceed.
Win 7 or ME are baffled as well.
I thought Ubuntu might have an Fdisk equivalent to remove a partition and leave a completely clean drive as WIN 98 doesn't understand larger drives and partitioning the drive failed.
I'd probably just go with Win 7 and then set up a multiple boot system options so I could learn Linux.
Short story: I can boot off an Ubuntu USB thumb drive but want a command line (or GUI) method to remove any partition on the SATA drive.
Thanks for putting me on your list.
Charlie