Partition help

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I am trying to understand all this partition creation. I am trying to follow Mat Campbell's installation MP3's of his tutorial of installing Debian, however, I am not understanding the partition creation.

A year ago I replaced a failing HD with a new Maxtor 30GB HD. I used fdisk and formated the new drive. I said yes to two partitions. A 14.2GB drive C and a 14.2 drive D were created. After formating drive C with my Windows 98 SE disk, I started loading programs and created data capture directories. I see some Windows files on drive D although I do not remember formating drive D. This was the first HD that failed on me since I started using computers since July 1984. I am not sure how to keep the 14.2GB partition for Windows 98SE and format the rest for Debian. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Angus MacKinnon
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