I hate the Compaq Presario 5000 BIOS. It allows only "harddisk, floppy, and cdrom" boot options, but not drive specicfications. I have installed Win Me on the D paritition and left C for media files. I had rebooted many times, but this last time says that there's an invalid system disk. IS it trying to boot from c again? How do I get back into windows so that i can use Partition Majic to change the Drive specification?

The system boot files are at the beginning of the hard drive. I don't know what makes you want to put the operating system on the second partition, but the first partition (C) is where it belongs.

I dont want the paritition on D, I want it on C-- which is why I went back to rename the drives. However, I need to be able to boot into ME first. How do I boot into ME onto the D:\ partition so I can rename them????

Are you talking about having a Dual Boot (2) Operating Systems?

No... the mistake was formating the D: partition that the Compaq comes with and then re-installing ME on it. IT rebooted to the D: partition perfectly EVERY time (about 10 times). But when I last went to reboot, i got a "invalid system disk" message. There's no CD or floppy in the drive. I'm assuming the compaq wants to start booting to c: again. BUT HOW CAN I BOOT TO D?

You could try using a bootdisk to get to a DOS prompt and type FDISK /MBR which will rewrite the master boot record and hopefully allow Windows to start.

OK on a Compaq, Drive D is (System Save) that is to restore your operating System that is on Drive C, If you like using Compaq System the way it is suppose to be you have to leave D and the partition alone, now you cannot restore parts on your C drive or do a complete restore from the D drive, you need to make up your mind if you want the Compaq stuff All of it on or off your computer, I myself did not want it (I have a Compaq)I completely formatted and repartition's my drive and did a clean install of Windows Me, but I have the disk I bought it, If you have the disks that came with your computer (2) you can completely restore to factory default by using them, go to Compaq site and at their forum ask how to reinstall completely from your restore disks, long process but to do it right that is the best way, If you do not want any Compaq stuff on your machine, just a fresh clean hard drive you have to have a retail version of Windows Me, you could have reinstalled Windows me I believe from your options cabs file but that was on D and now that is gone, that forum really is a good one, just keep asking diff questions and it will show you how, best to go there http://compaq.com/athome/support/