I'd go with the previous post from Simon that says:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">You could probably boot to the Live CD, run "sudo gparted" from the
commandline to bring up the partition editor and delete all the
partitions.</blockquote><div>This same thing happened not long ago to me. Just zap all partitions and reboot from the Win CD to reinstall. You don't have to establish an NTFS partition. Windows doesn't care if the disk is blank. It just doesn't want active partitions.
<br>BTW, a handy, fast booting CD to have around is GParted all by itself. Never think about using Partition Magic again. It's available at <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php">http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
</a><br> </div>Scott<br>