Reformatting HD

[mad1]

What are the steps to reformatt a HD?

Can I take a HD,has current operating system and programs, and partition it into to equal sections(A-old section,B-new section)?Install a operating system onto drive B then uninstall the operating system on drive A.
The current OS is WIN Me and the new OS will be WIN 98 or WIN Me.

[daverme]

You will need two tools to do this, and Partition Magic from PowerQuest provides both in one package, because P.M. comes bundled with a product called Boot Magic. With P.M. you can move the partitions around as you described, and with Boot Magic you can set up a dual boot environment. You will need to boot from the "B" partiton in order to un-install the OS installed there, thus you will need a dual boot environment.

[mad1]

Can I then delete the operating system that is currently installed on drive "A" and then reformat drive "A".
I want to clean out the existing operating system and start clean with WIN 98 as I had before I installe WIN ME.