I'm glad your problem is fixed. I would however, like to comment... If a physical hard drive has been partitioned, the OS installation disk will see all partitions as virtual drives and will default install to the virtual drive C: unless instructed otherwise. Following installation ALL partitions will still exist. It was my experience with a recovery/restore CD that they will also install to virtual drive C: and leave all other partitions alone. Some may however totally wipe a physical drive and format/restore the drive to its original condition. Both should ask if you want to format the drive. It is possibly that both may also report that partitions exist and do you want to remove or change them. Doing a format will not remove or change any partitions unless you are using a special utility format command. FDISK is used to remove or change partitions. Certain utilities, e.g.Partition Magic, can also remove or change partitions. They may also remove/change partitions and format in one command, but I have never used them so I don't know. Don Do YOU want a gmail account invitation? Include your email address in the body of a private message to dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Aiello" <MrDeamon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:03 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partition Remover > Thank you Tom. It now be fixed. >><-----Original Message-----> >>From: T. Hunt >>Sent: 2/22/2005 6:34:39 PM >>To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>Subject: Re: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partition Remover >> >> >>Boot from the XP CD...or, you have a recovery CD rather than a plain XP >>CD, boot from that and then ask to format the entire drive. You should >>be warned that nothing will be saved. Say yes and XP should install >>once, cleanly, on a single partition. >> >>If you have other folders/partitions with operating systems on them > when >>you finish, you're not doing a clean install. >> >>Tom >> > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk