The DOS FDISK command would do this as well.... and its usually right on your installation diskette.... <snip subject="NT partitions"> If you are stripping Win NT off of a machine & it has left a partition that you can't remove download this program http://hercules.ksu.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/delpart.exe Don't know if it works for other types of partition, but it saved me a lot of trouble. </snip>