Things didn't get installed to the c: drive they got installed to the d: drive (ironically I've been trying to do something like this for quite some time but with only the program files folder) but it installed the system files(boot.ini io.sys ntdetect.com etc...) to the c: drive, no surprise. I want to delete the c: drive and make d: both system and boot. How do I go about doing this without messing up a whole installation. I'm really lazy and don't want to have to go thru that whole ordeal anymore and I'm mad I lost alot of important files. Truth can become lie, but if lies become truth we're in trouble.

You can change drive letters in windows xp but it will most likely screw some things up so I wouldnt recommend it. Like it or not you are going to have to reinstall. After you install windows xp on c drive, reformation d drive then redo the installation process on d drive as well if you want two windows xp bootable drives. Not sure why you would want to do something like that, but hey, thats your business, not mine. =) There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary, and those who don't.

Even though you've installed to D: you cannot simply delete C: XP (and all other MS OS's as far as I know) expect and need to see a C: drive at boot time even if the OS is installed elsewhere.

I've seen this problem once before and can tell you there's NO WAY Windows will let you delete or move the files from the C drive. Reason being, you can't move said files whilst they're being used. The problem occurred when windows found the C drive too slow and switched to the faster drive half way through the installation. Only way I was able to keep XP all on the C drive was to disable the other drives. Not saying that's your problem. But that's the only time I've seen something like that happen. Hard lessons learnt are not easily forgotten.

With regards to loading all your Applications/Software/Documents etc on another drive, simply redirect the installation to that specific drive. All mine are on the D drive, leaving only the OS on the C drive. Therefore if the OS crashes or I need to reformat the C drive, I can do it happily in the knowledge that my software is safe. If on the other hand you're a fan of MS products then you WILL need to reload the software regardless of which drive it's installed on. Hard lessons learnt are not easily forgotten.