Vnet said:if its a seagate use the DM Utility or the best way could be the fdisk format ... jus boot from a bootable win98 cd n delete all the partitions starting from the logical then the extended and then the primary... or yeah use the winxp cd that would be more easy as its a sort of user friendly...
Hope you aren't trying to hide anything (like privacy, porn, credit card numbers, etc). There are a number of freeware tools that will extract the data from a reformated, repartitioned, and damaged drives.