Hi i'm kinda new to win xp so I dont know exactly how to do this. what I wanna do is seperate the computer into 3 sections. I have a 40 gig hard drive so I want 25 gb on one partition. 10 gb on the other. and finaly 5 gb on the last one. I want to be able to choose at start up which partition to boot into. each will be like a seperate computer with seperate everything. you cant evan look at the other persons computer while logged on to yours. I know theres a lot of system files and what not for reformatting and that is to be placed on the 25 gb partition. This sounds kind of dumb. I dont think its possible but I figured I would post it to find out.

Your question is not dumb, but not particularly plausible. You can do something "like" this. You would have to partition the HDD as 25-10-5. You can do this using the XP install disk using the create partition feature. I'm not sure you can format all partitions you create there, but you can do it in XP after the install. The only thing is you will need to install XP 3 different times to be able to boot to 3 different partitions. The system files will remain on the 1st installed partition. But you will still need 3 different "legal" copies of XP. Don't quote me on that. As far as not being able to see the other partitions. I'm not sure. With NTFS sometimes it will see but not allow access to other partitions, but that does not always happen just right. You could, perhaps, encrypt each individual drive from within each OS, that may do it. Hope this points you in the right direction.