hard drive problem

[skitty]

all the partitions on my parents computer have become corrupt. what can i do to wipe it all so i can use it again?

[Zxian]

Use Knoppix and qtparted, or a Win98 boot disk with fdisk.

Either that or if you're in WindowsXP, you can use the Disk Management features (Right-click My computer->Manage) to format the drive and start anew.