Ok, I just used Partition Magic 7 to add the F drive of my HD to my C drive, as I didn't want them partitioned anymore. Everything was working fine, I rebooted the computer, and it was just great, all the info on the C drive, just like it was supposed to be. Then I was going to format the computer, so I rebooted to get into DOS, and now it's telling me that I have no C: drive at all, just an A drive. It won't let me format, it won't let me do anything, and I'm completely lost...can anyone help me??? What happened???

I'd really like to blame this on Partition Magic, but my gut feeling is that you're trying to format an NTFS partition with a DOS bootdisk. It won't work. You should delete the partition with FDISK or with the XP CD during XP setup, make a new partition, and format it.

The man's right. If you're booting to dos using a 98 boot disk or similar, then you wont be able to access any NTFS drives (Your C drive). Goto Microsoft.com and d/l the Xp boot disks, you'll need 6 floppies. Once you have the boot floppies, use those to boot to the Xp setup process, and delete/format any partitions you don't want.

When it says A:\ on there after you boot with the Win98 boot disk... Just type in fdisk. Then when you are in fdisk, use function 5 to see what is out there. It will see your HDD, maybe not label it, but then use function 3 and delete are instences on there, then start-up XP setup and format. I've done it many times in the past days... MIke