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I figured it out and with no 3rd party programs. XP's Diskpart Clean All did it. It was kind of scary for a non-IT person like me but it worked exactly as the online documentation said. It took a long time so I wasn't sure it was working, but the light on the drive kept flashing and after...

One other question, sorry...If these work from a bootable CDROM, how do they detect USB drives? I thought USB was only active after full boot but maybe I'm wrong.

I'll look into it. Thanks.

Doesn't it say it wipes out all info on ALL drives???

I did that already, but it isn't clear with any of them whether they can do this particular function. They all seem to be focused on the internal boot drive. The most promising is this one: http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm but I wanted to see if anyone knew a tool...

Thanks for the suggestion. I know nothing about Linux though, and have a feeling it would take a long time to get familiar enough with it to do this one (hopefully simple) operation.

I have a 100GB HD which was originally installed in my Lenovo laptop but is now in a USB enclosure and used as a backup drive. It has a system recovery partition which I would like to delete and merge the space into a single partition. Windows XP Disk Management won't allow this. Are there...