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Old 10-06-2006   #1
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OK here's the confusion

I have two drives in a machine

d:\ [drive 0] which in my computer management is stated at "boot"
c:\ [drive 1] which in my computer management is stated at "system"

The main drive used is D:\. What I want is to be able to remove c: [drive 1] altogether, or reformat it to use just as extra storage, which at present is not possible.

They are both have Windows XP Pro installed. All I have is an OEM XP disk. Can I do a repair install, if so how? or does anybody know of any other way to carry out this task.

Thank you so much in advance.
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Hey bipbop!

So what you're currently running XP from C:\ drive?

I think you're gonna need to reinstall XP on D:, then formatting C: for use as storage.

You got an advantage, because you can back-up files to C: first, then place them to the new D: (which is at that time probably C: ), and reformat C:.

But, what you're probably wanting to do is to keep D: as it is at the moment, but let it be "boot" and "system"?

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Hey Bluefish

But, what you're probably wanting to do is to keep D: as it is at the moment, but let it be "boot" and "system"?

This is exactly what I want to do, I don't want to lose all my downloaded and installed programs either. Is reinstalling and reformatting my only option? I was so hoping there was another way.

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