Fdisk vs WinXP

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I have a new machine that i need to partition/format and has no floppy
drive - Windows XP setup halts with a disc error asking me to run FDisk

On my previous machine using floppy i could partition & format without
windows at all (using MSDos commands)

I've read Microsoft article on creating partitions but they discuss using
floppy disc (which doesn't rely on windows) and using Windows which relies
on windows already being installed

They don't discuss how to create a partition (and format it) using windows
xp cd e.g. if you don't already have Windows XP installed and don't have a
floppy disk

Any clues?


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