JC,
        The recovery disk should partition and format the Hard disk for you.  I
have seen this on oth HP and Compaq computers.  Although if the drive
came partitoned form Hp and that is not what you wanted. then, I think if
you run the recovery it will repartition the drive undoing the work you
just did.

Derek

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:23:55 -0700 Jerry & Trudy Corzine
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> I need some help ||||||  I have a hp 8500 and we had a (pro) come to
> our
> house and try and set up a crash proof backup. I want to remove the
> partitions and restore the 20g harddrive to its original state. So
> far I
> have followed your guide to get to the partition area using a start
> up
> disk and removed all partitions except the primary. Im afraid if I
> remove the primary it wont reboot. All I have is the hp recovery
> disk. I
> am new to dos and dont quite understand.  The guide says to delete
> all
> partitions . Will have to reformat or just install the recovory disk
> .
> Thanks for your help .  JC
>
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