peanut or tiny linux install woes

[theWretched]

i got an old pentium 166mhz/32mb/1gig hdd from work for free recently and wanted to load a light gui capable form of linux on it. as it stands the machine has windows nt4.0 on it, but i'm locked out due to an unknown administrative password (and yes i did try the nt password workaround utility but messed it up :( ). my question is how can i possibly wipe the system of the borked nt install (over 2 hdds) and install peanut or tiny linux. the downloads off of their respective sites mention loading it from dos or linux but not as a clean install as far as i can understand. am i missing something simple here? thanks

[fancypiper]

Any rescue disk or floppy distro should have fdisk available to make/wipe your partitions. If you have a windows boot floppy handy, it has the windows partitioning utility that you can make windows type partitions.

I think some small distros even manage to have x.

[JohnT]

The format utility actually creates new fat and root tables, leaving all previous data on the disk untouched. Moreover, an image of the replaced fat and root tables are stored, so that the unformat command can be used to restore them.
Fdisk merely cleans the Partition Table (located in the drive's first sector) and does not touch anything else.
Here's a good utility for starting out with a clean disk before partioning and formatting. A freeware version is onsite.
http://www.killdisk.com/eraser.htm