Being new to computers I got past the fear of breaking mine by doing clean reinstalls. With the first try,about 8 months ago, I walked away to get a cup of coffee to return to find a count down 5,4,3,2,1 and now NTFS is being installed.
What I would like to do is reformat with FAT 32, I've tried using the recovery console tool in xp cd-rom and it didn't take. Boot floppies were missing files. Tried fdisk. I could by a new HD for a little more than the price of partion magic. I would like to do a dual intall of xp fat32 and mandrake. (And once I got mandrake down fairly well then windows goes out the window, said with glee) I have an AMD 2100 XPOEM---80gb ATA-133 HD---1 GB ram "A count down isn't much of a choice." Visit Fuckmicrosoft....love it.. ha ha.