Last night I went from Windows 98 to XP Home Professional,
A friend told me something Windows 98 did not have,

One of my hard drives it "was" dual boot to linux, (until I reinstalled
windows 98) the map showed how many linux partitions it was chopped up
into.

I can not for the life of me remember what path I went down to see
this, I could ring him up and bug him again, I wonder if anyone here
knows. otherwise I will have to wait a few days before I find out.

OK never mind I went to '
http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/for...ons-76734.html
' (http://tinyurl.com/223zze) from "Similar Threads" and found the
answer

Right click "My Computer" from desk top
select "manage" then "disk management"