I have a 20 gig HD. I made a partition of 4gig which screwed up the pc so what I did was formated that partition thinking I was formatting the whole 20gig. When I re-installed Win Me it said I only had a 4 gig Hd. So what I did was installed Partition Magic 6.0 which is what I used the first time and merged the partitions together. Now I have the 20 gig. I went and installed Win 2000 as well on the same drive as ME. Now this is were I'm confused. Now when I boot up into Me all my programs are gone and when I boot into 2000 there all gone. But when I do a serch I can find them and have to install them all again. It's like there's another hidden partition somewhere. What I want to know is in detail if possible I don't care if I loose everything. What I want is to have my Hd like I never partitioned it. Then I want is to make 3 partitions. 1 fat 32 about 3 gigs for win Me. Another fat 32 or Nt about 3 gigs for 2000. And a third fat 32 for the remainder of the HD for my programs. If someone could E-mail me or post a reply with the easiest way to do this it would be greatly appreciated.

Run Fdisk from a dosprompt, and delete ALL your partitions, dos and nondos alike. Then create a primary dos partition, and reinstall windows.

Ok I'm new to this so if I do that, when I create a new patition will I have to format the partition before installing windows again. Again I'm sorry I'm new to the partitioning thing.

If you use partition magic, you don't really need to format, but it is recommanded. Be sure to install windows ME first, then win2k Johan

To start from scratch and loose all information contained on the drive. Boot to a 98 boot disk(Windows 2000 sometimes doesn't like WinME boot disks(DOS 8.0 and all). If you do not have a 98 boot disk, you can download an image of one at the bottom of this page and extract it to a formatted floppy.). Choose without cd rom support. When you get to the a:\> prompt run fdisk. Say Yes to the question about Large Disk Support. From the fdisk menu choose to delete any partitons now on the drive in this order: Logical Extended Primary Follow the onscreen instructions to do this. I am an fdisk walkthrough. Take a look at me before you use this utility. Now... create a Primary Dos Partiton. Set it's size to 3GB or 3000mb. Then create an Extended partition for the rest of the drive. Finally create two Logical drives. One 3GB and one the rest. When you are finished, you will have 3GB c: 3GB d: 14GB e: Reboot to the floppy disk as instructed. Boot without cd rom support. At the a:\> prompt format each drive by typing: format x: where 'x' is each drive letter. You will have to do this three times. When you chose Yes to large disk support in fdisk, you told the computer you wanted to use FAT32. After the formatting is done... Reboot. This time choose With cdrom support. at the a:\> prompt take note of which drive letter your cd rom is... most likely g: Browse to the cd rom drive letter by typing: g: and hitting enter. Put in the WinME cd rom. Type Setup and hit enter. Set up Windows ME. When you get that up and running the way you like it... Boot into your BIOS and change the boot order or boot sequence so you can boot to your cd rom drive first. Put in your Windows 2000 cd and save and exit changes(usually F10) in the BIOS. You are now starting setup for Windows 2000. Press Enter to set up Windows 2000. F8 to agree to the EULA. Now you will get some choices. Pay carefull attention to the onscreen instructions. Choose to install Windows 2000 to the d: drive. You can also reformat this drive NTFS here if you would like. That's totally up to you. Continue installing Windows 2000. After the first reboot you will see onscreen in the top left Press Any Key to boot to cd rom... Do not do this... don't touch anything until setup begins again. You should be ok from there. After Windows 2000 has been properly installed, every time you boot up you will get a choice of which OS to boot to. NTLDR and the Boot.ini file(and some other stuff) will handle which one to boot into by which one you choose. Good luck!