Partitions are a logical division of the hard disk into no more than 4
separate areas. Under Windows, each partition would normally appear as a
separate hard drive. The purpose is usually to organize your data and to
limit the loss in case of a partition getting corrupted. If the hard disk
fails, you would lose all the partitions anyway.

Not all versions of FDISK can handle non-DOS partitions. That is, you may
not be able to delete a non-DOS partion using your version of FDISK. The
solution would be to get a different version of FDISK to do this with. My
favorite would be to boot Tom's Linux - a small, single disk Linux
implementations that includes the Linux FDISK utility. It operates much the
same as the one under Windows, but can handle the different partition types.

In your case, had you tried installing Linux sometime earlier that may have
created the partition?

Hope this helps.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
Ok, I've looked into FDISK, and it says there are 2 partitions, one is C:
and the other is a non-dos partition. When I try to delete it, it says there
are no partitions defined. I'm going to keep at it, but I'm very confused by
it all. Can someone explain partitions at all?

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