hi my name is floyd carlyle and i discovered something by accident i think if you use a win 95 bootdisk you can delete those partitions i recently tried for hours to delete a partition until i tried other bootdisks and what do you know win 95 for some reason worked maybe i was just lucky or something,but i have deleted many partitions and installed them on various machines, try this first it worked or me. im sure someone on this foreum can be of more assistence maybe even explain why this worked for me. hope you find the answers you seek. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml