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If you delete a partition you have to either create a totally new oner to replace it or expand a second existing one in order to fill in that now vacant drive space. After reformatting a partition or formatting a new one it is then ready for use.

You first have to have a partition to work with in order to see it formatted or reformatted. For that you will want to be familiar with how drive partitioning and formatting works before attempting it yourself or see anything left on the drive like files, photos, and other things lost if the drive was already in use.

On the other hand if the drive is brand new and saw the first attempts leave unwanted clutter from a failed install a good cleaning can then see a fresh clean install succeed. With XP where do you go for instructions? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348

For using a free Linux drive tool GParted live for cd rather then spending on Partition Magic or another retail software you only a few things.

1)cd or dvd burner

2)1 cd-r not rw blank disk

3)correct type of burning program like free version of BurnOn http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/

4)The correct release of GParted is the most important since there two types namely the typical for Linux only and the platform independent releases(few of those so far) that can be used for various partition types for different OSs. The last and fastest release to work for MS type partitions would be the 0.3.3.0 with 0.3.2.0 version just below that at http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=173828

The documentation and instructions along with screen shots for that tool are seen at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry...es/gparted.htm

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