Creating a Dell diagnostic parbreastion on a bare hard drive

I'm an avid proponent of multibooting, as one can guess from my webpage at www.goodells.net-multibooting. I've also setup all my kids' computers to dualboot with parbreastions hidden from each other. One boot parbreastion is where they do their real work (schoolwork, email, dtp projects, etc.), while the other is where they do their Kazaa and similar risky stuff. This way the inevitable viruses and other junk don't bring down the entire computer. Every few months or so we can wipe the Kazaa parbreastion and restore it from a clean backup image, all without compromising their trusted parbreastion. Note the Dell diagnostic parbreastion wouldn't be suitable to dualboot a full-blown Windows parbreastion like this because of FAT16 limitations, though it's ideal for a utility parbreastion.

Not really. Though I did spend several years developing and teaching training clbuttes (each clbutt was 3-6 months long) for the Social Security Administration--hence my bemusement at the wildly off-topic Social Security threads in this newsgroup right now. That, plus a decade of coaching youth soccer-baseball-softball (3 kids, all grown now) has given me lots of practice in rephrasing concepts for different audiences.