Remove partition created in reformat/reinstall for A50

So when I got my Toshiba Satellite A50, it had no partition I knew of, just a C drive with XP installed on it. But the disc that it came with for reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling XP is creating a partition!
So this is not the original installation or set up that I had.... I already have an external hard drive, I don't want a partition.
How can I remove the partition? I'm willing to completely reformat the hard drive all over again, but if so, how do I do that?
The Toshiba CD doesn't really give me a command prompt to go reformatting the hard drive myself....
The other annoying thing is that my C drive was NTFS, but the disc is creating one drive NTFS and the other FAT32... also ... what's really scary, is when the Toshiba disc loads it says "loading Windows 98".... to my understanding my laptop NEVER had 98 on it... I'm praying this isn't a 98-xp upgrade. It seems someone gave me the wrong disc with my laptop?
Or am I worrying over nothing?

Hello Lou
Believe me you worrying over nothing!!! Please dont be confused about loading W98 message. The unit starts in DOS mode and it is the same as on W98.
Now step by step explanation: I have done recovery procedure many times and have a little bit experience with it.
When starts, recovery CD shows menu with two options: STANDARD and EXPERT installations modes. STANDARD mode simply erases the whole HDD and creates one partition (the whole HDD capacity) for OS installation.
EXPERT mode should be used if you want to install OS on already created partition or if you want to create new partition for OS installation. Please note you can create just first partition there ( C: ) and you can not modify already created partition.
In my opinion it is always good to have two partitions, the first one for OS and installation and second one for data saving. You can not always have external HDD with you. If something goes wrong you can anytime install OS on first partition without loosing data saved on second one.
Anyway, start recovery procedure and choose STANDARD recovery procedure (option 1). The whole HDD will be formatted and Os will be installed on one partition.
Bye and if you have more questions please write again.

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