getting rid of partitions, starting anew?

[ubbman]

My partition setup is thouroughly screwed up. Even though they appear to work, Partition Magic has one drive labeled BAD. So I've decided to just backup on an external, and re-do all the partitioning on my two drives. What's the easiest way to do this? FDISK? If so, is there a manual somewhere online where I can learn exactly how to do what I want (that is, delete the partitions, unallocated space, etc. and re-create two NTFS partitons from scratch)?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Bob

 

[deathwalker]

I assume your intent is to reinstall your operating system? If so..you Windows XP installation proceedure will allow you to delete/create/format partitions. Its really quite simple...you set the 1st boot device to you cdrom..boot with the XP intall disk...follow instructions...it will prompt you to allow you to delete and create partitions. Delete all the partitions then create how ever many you want and format.

 

[ubbman]

So I "zero-filled" my hard drive using the Seagate disk manager. Then using the same program, I created one 20 GB NTFS partition and installed Vista. Everything was fine, partition magic saw it as one 20 GB partition and unallocated space. Then I formatted the unallocated space with disk manager in windows, and while it worked, Partition magic now says there was an error in the table or something (which it fixed successfully) but now it shows the whole drive as "BAD."

 

[Billb2]

Boot into windows recoverv consul and run fixmbr.