Daily Doings at the Line of Death Bar & Grill

I'm surprised XP Home doesn't have FDISK in it; I would have thought it did (Start > Run > CMD to open a DOS window, then FDISK, no?), at which point I'd build a rescue CD and boot from that long enough to do the partition work. Absent that, I might look for an older copy of something like Partition Magic to cope. I also HIGHLY recommend Acronis TrueImage for backups (I got it initially because it didn't require the .NET framework to be installed, and it's great) and building rescue boot discs and the like.