I have a hard drive with origionally with windows nt on it with 3 partitions(C,D,E)each with 2GB on a 6GB hard drive. I installed w2kprof and i was able to remove partitions D&E. partition c still exists. the current config is C: 2GB , 4GB unallocated. 1. Is it necessary to have partitions? 2. how do I get rid of the partition C: and make the 6gb hard drive one dish with no partitions.

Drboogie: Providing you are not booting from this drive (you cannot delete the "C:" partition if you are booting from it)you should be able to delete the partition. Did you use the disk management utility to delete the partitions, before? If not, than I suggest you try it to delete the remaining partition.

I am booting from the "C" partition. Is there anyway I can change this so I can delete the c partition. I did use the disk mnanagement utility to delete the other drives. Also, are particitions necessary?

You had 3 x 2Gig partitions ((c: d: e: ); you removed 2 of them (d: and e: )? You cannot remove c: from within the installed OS (W2K in this case). Try to do so and you're asking the OS to commit suicide - and it won't... Presumably you think you want (would be better off with) a single 6Gig partition? Either you start afresh and reconfigure the drive - via '98 boot-disk, or via W2K setup options, or you keep the c: 2Gig as is and use Disk Admin (in W2K Admin tools) to reconfigure the balance of the drive as a single 4Gig partition. Using a '98 boot-disk you would run Fdisk and delete the partition; then reconfigure the drive afresh to have a single partition - and then use the format util to format it as fat32. During W2K setup you could reformat as ntfs is so wished, or convert it later. Quite why would you want a single 6Gig partition??? An all-in-one partition (OS/apps/utils + data...) is not really an ideal/safe way to go. If the partition goes belly-up you lose everything; but with a Primary (OS/apps/utils) and an Extended partition for data only, your data is (shoudl be) safe in event of a Primary crash - and the need to reformat/re-install to Primary. The Extended can be further sub-divided into a series of logical-drives - for ease of data organisation an faster/easier defrags. This latter being a very useful route with larger drives (i.e. over 6Gig). So yes, two or more partitions are preferable to a single parition system only... Need more help/input - post back?