recover partition after removing grub

[tony]

Hope someone can help.

I have winxp home ed. installed. Thought I'd give linux a run so I
partitioned my hd from 30gb into 15+15, installed centos on the sencond
partition and opted for the grub multi os loader. Everything worked
fine until I decided I'd had enough. Not worried about getting any
data off the linux partition, I first ran fixmbr on the boot partition
so that windows booted up by default. Now I have a 30 gb disk, with
15gb for windows (so far so good), and partition D: which is recognised
but I can't access. Any ideas how I recover the partition. I thought
I'd just format it from the command line but I can't seem to.- I get an
"error in IOCTL call" message.

 

[tony]

Gordon - Unbelieveable! Using a PC for 16 years and thought I was
competent.

Brilliant answer, thanks very much. Spent the day getting nowhere and
this nugget took 60 seconds to get the formatting underway.

"we're not worth..."

 

[Gordon]

Gordon - Unbelieveable! Using a PC for 16 years and thought I was
competent.

Brilliant answer, thanks very much. Spent the day getting nowhere and
this nugget took 60 seconds to get the formatting underway.

Glad to have been of help....