[ILUG] Win2000 partitions

[jac1]

I was looking at my PC in work and came across the Disk Management program.
There is a FAT partition that cannot be accessed as a normal partition (It is 
the first partition but not the C:\). It's only 15MB in size and is called 
HP_HIPA if that helps. What is this partition? Is it win2000's version of 
/boot? I have administrative access to the machine but i cannot delete it. I 
want to install Linux later so what do i do about lilo?