I'm sure there's a way to format the entire drive through disk management...see the link at the end of this paragraph, that should do the trick. Then, once it's all formatted, repartition the drive when reinstalling windows, and restore the files you have backed up to the desired partitions. Here are some instructions that might help you in deleting the partitions and formatting the drive...start at step 4: http://www.ehow.com/how_6026_format-hard-drive.html
If you don't have any sensitive data on your harddrive, there's really no need to write zeroes over the data.
Everest Home Edition is a pretty good program for checking what parts you have in your computer, download here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
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