xp and removal of fat32 partition

[spoddynerd]

I have a 128Gb fat32 partition, drive D on my XP Home system.
I created it using PartitionMagic and I want to remove it.
Unfortunately I have reinstalled windows since creating the partition, so PartitionMagic cannot remove the partition because windows cannot report the correct dimensions. Disk management cannot remove the partition either.


I believe that fdisk is not available on XP. Should I obtain a win98 boot disk from the web and try to delete it by reformatting the whole disk? Or is there another/ better way? Is the fdisk approach likely to work?

 

[electronicsfreak]

just load with the windows xp disc, then delete the partitions and create a new one and it will format, from there you can choose fat32 or ntfs. I reccomend ntfs but it is entirely up to you.

 

[spoddynerd]

Do you mean the XP installation disc? when I boot off this, I don't see any option to remove partitions, just the option to install or repair windows, neither of which allows me to remove the partition.

 

[funkytunaa]

You got through the option to install from there it will ask you to install a new version and will ask whether you want to nuke the partitions.

Rock on!!!