It may have been deleted, but it's still formatted for Linux. If you're sure it's gone, boot off a DOS disk, type fdisk, from the menu chose make partition active. Choose the inactive partition and then reboot. You should then have a drive letter assigned to the partition. You can use the windows xp utilities to format it. I would still use partition resizer. I've used it quite a bit and it works well if you're familiar with using the command line.