[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Also if you have XP Pro, you might have a problem formatting the hard drive because of different FAT partions. Win98 runs Fat16or 32(easy to format) and XP Pro is NTFS.I have found that harder to format.

Do a Google on "delpart.exe". This little utility will simply delete ANY partition. Then you can use fdisk as normal and then format as normal. It is only 124k in size, comes from Microsoft and has saved my bacon when trying to clean off several NT 4.0 formatted drives.

Add it to your favorite boot disk and stop fretting.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I knew someone would point to a trick, I have been using the manufacture of the hard drives utilities to low level format hard drives formatted NTFS partions.