Can I get rid of partitions w/o Formatting?

My friend and I just installed a new hard drive (Western Digital 8.4 gig)on his computer. After we installed it, we turned on the computer, the bios detected it, and it went into windows 95. Windows did not detect it. So we turned of the computer, and turned it back on, changing the bios settings for that drive. Still Windows did not detect it. So we restarted it again, but when we did, it wouldn't boot. It was stuck one point,it said "Detecting VMI Data Pool" or something to that effect (it was mid-night) So we messed around with it some more, using a boot disk that he had to try and fix it. We finally figured out that his original disk, had suddenly been converted into 4 non-dos partitions! I have no idea how this happened. So just to get his computer running I put Win98 on his new drive. We still can't get the computer to recognize the old one. Although it is still detected in the bios just the same as before. How can I convert the disk back into dos partitions and if necesary take out the partions or at least move them with out formatting?

Like they told you in the Win 98 forum a boot disk from PQ will do the job.

There is another way here:
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/



[This message has been edited by don41 (edited 04-25-2000).]