Hi Cym No, so long as your not planning on fdisking and changing any partitions, go right ahead and format C, your D drive will still be there intact when you've installed Windows. HTH John -----Original Message----- From: mdnghtkiss76 [mailto:mdnghtkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 28 April 2002 15:56 To: 24hrsupporthelpdesk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [24hrsupporthelpdesk] formating harddrive I was wondering if I wanted to wipe out my c drive and reinstall windows, will this effect my d drive that I created out of my c drive? It's a partition I created to store my mp3's and I would hate to loose this. Cym - Users can unsubscribe from this list by sending email to 24hoursupport-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at http://web.tampabay.rr.com/spider1/24hrsupport.htm.