Delete NTFS partition, Now I'm confused

[needhelp]

Can someone please tell me how to delete an NTFS partition from my hard drive.
I am confused because I have been told repeatedly, that this has to be done with delpart and cannot be done with fdisk. Thats what I have always believed, but is this true, I have now been told fdisk ,will in fact delete an NTFS partition,
Please tell me, is this correct. If this is true then why do some say we gotta use delpart
It would be appreciated if someone could explain exactly how to do it, step by step if possible.

[juppy]

Are you wanting to delete the partition so you can reinstall an NTFS operating system (like Windows XP)? If so, just boot from the XP cd and go through the formatting process with that.

If you're just wanting to know, yes, FDISK can delete an NTFS partition. Some people say it can't because it can't read it.....that's true that it can't read it, because it can only read FAT16/FAT32 files systems, BUT it can still detect the NTFS partition and that's all it needs to be able to delete it. This is assuming the NTFS partition is also a primary partition. FDISK cannot delete logical or extended NTFS drive partitions (such as with a dual boot setup). It also cannot set up a new NTFS partition after the old one is deleted, because all it knows how to set up is a FAT partition.

[Computerguy2]

You can delete an NTFS partition with FDISK here is how you go about doing it.

1. Get into Fdisk
2. Then it will say about large disk support press Y or N after you have read the info
3. It will then display a list of options
4. Then it will say delete partition or logical DOS drive
5. Choose option 4 then I think it will detect the NTFS partition then it will ask you if you want to delete it then press Y and then it will say to restart for changes to take effect.

[needhelp]

Here is the actual problem.

I had a computer with Windows ME installed on it. I installed a new hard drive as primary master and installed xp on the new drive, making the old drive primary slave just for storage use. I deleted all the Window ME files form the old drive.
I had a problem with my installation of xp and reinstalled it, expecting this to format the drive and replace the earlier copy of xp, but it didnt, it just installed a second copy of xp on the new drive.
The new installation works okay. but every time I install something on the computer it installs it to the "G" drive wihcih is my second logical drive on my old hard drive.

my drive configuration is..

New drive "C" FAT 32
CDROM drive "D"
DVD drive "E"
Old drive (partitioned) "F" FAT 32 and "G" NTFS

Dont know why the old drive got pushed back there or why the G" part of the drive is NTFS cos i always had that old drive FAT 32.
Now when I install a new program on the computer it always tries to install it on the "G" drive and to avoid this happening, I have to change the installation path for it to install to the "C" drive.
I thought I would just delete the "G " part of the drive and format it, but when I try to do this through disk management, it comes up with the message that it cant be deleted because it is sharing some of Windows sysstem files. Cant format it either, cos that option is greyed out.
How do I go about deleting and formatting the logical "G" drive on this comp.

[glc]

Delpart is your best option, put it on a bootable floppy.