I think that you should be able to delete and recreate the partition from BIOS,and then boot from the XP CD which will recognise that the disk is unformatted and start with an NTFS format.
Got to be worth a try.
If that doesn't work, get hold of FDSISK (from any old DOS or 3.1 floppy you have lying around and use that to completely zap the disk.
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Last edited by Timothy; 26th July 2003 at 16:51.