so long as you are not running winxp, NT, or 2k you can do the following from within windows
goto a dos prompt
type debug and enter
Should see a dash
now enter the following:
fcs 200 400 0
acs 100
mov ax,301
mov bx,200
mov cx,1
mov dx,80 (80 is primary master IDE, 81 primary slave, 82 secondary master, 83 secondary slave)
int 13
int 20
press enter to return to seeing just a dash
now press "G" and enter. you should see "The program terminated normaly" This will wipe any partition tables you have on the drive selected. This is one step better than an fdisk. I used to use it to remove virus's from the boot sector of a hard drive. if your using xp, 2k, or nt you will have to boot from a floppy to run the commands.
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