TO: ajs7997
Partition Magic 7.0 or 8.0 are good programs. However, you may be going about it the wrong way if you can make the two disk Partition Magic advises you to make do so. Shut down your PC incert Disk 1 and boot your PC. Follow the screen instrutions and wait until you are at the PM menu or desktop.You should be looking at Partition Magic window showing your hard drive. Here you highlight the entire drive and delete it. Next highlight the gray area, which should be your hard drive. Select format and the entire drive will be erased, format in fat 32, and ready for WIN XP installation. when you boot again, go to the Bios have have you PC boot from the CD-Rom drive. Exit the Bios saving the changes and your PC will Reboot. Next follow the instructions. if the cannot make Partition Magic disks. Then go to the Bios change the boot to the CD-Rom drive first, save changes and reboot. WIN XP will delete the partition for and create its own. Just follow and read all instructions carefully. slao make sure that you have the full version of WIN XP.