>>Hi Metin
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>>>I think so if we can find a low level format utility, we can do it... I'm aware these things from years... :(
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>>Use FDISK from DOS days and zap the partitions and recreate them, there is no stopping then I hope.
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>I doubt that the old fdisk is capable of handling today's disk sizes. But as you said, a fresh bootable FreeBSD (or Knoppix or any Linux) distro disk has all the disk utilities you may want.

How do all these "other" operating systems work with MS? I don't mean running them at the same time, but you can use the utilities from things like Linux, FreeBDS, etc to do everything up to the point of intalling XP? I guess it kind of makes sense, as the things prior to intalling are not OS-dependent by their very nature. Is that it? I'm just a little wary of using these products and wondered what you thought.