I must have messed up while I was trying to delete and format partitions. Somehow my Windows installation got installed on D drive partition. I think I rather have it on C drive. I had originally intended to have C drive 10 GB, D drive 40GB with C drive being the OS partition. I think it turned out that C is 10GB with nothing on it, and D partition is 40GB with OS on there. I am thinking of using Partition Magic to merge the two into one C drive. Will I have problems with Office programs, Adobe programs at this point? There are no files yet moved over to this PC. At that point, can I create a new partition called D to get it back to where I wanted it to be? please advise.

There is nothing you can do about it except a complete full install. Even if you were to delete the C: partition Windows would still boot with D: drive. You cannot create a partition called D:. You can create a partition with a number and Windows will allocate it a letter when it boots. As D: is now reserved for the boot drive, any new partitions will be anything else but D: However, everything should work fine with the D: drive as the boot and system drive. There is the odd application that assumes the the system is on drive C: but that's bad programming. Stuart

Agree. Format both drives again and start over. Any attempt to merge partitions with XP installed in D will come to grief. I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

you can go into disk manager is adminstrative tools and change the drive letter to c controll pannle admin tools computer/system manager disk manager then find the c:\ change to another letter say T for temp then change you d:\ to c:\ then change t:\ to d:\ or e:\ whatever you want There is the odd application that assumes the the system is on drive C: but that's bad programming. that is true the old update for MS Dungeon Siege (they fixed it now) asumed that the dame was installed on the c:\ bad programing i have also seen a few programs that asume your cd drive is D;\ lame i know my cd drive is g:\ adn H:\ so i am in deep :P "Kernrel Panic"

Disregard everything joya has said. Xp installed on D makes D your System drive. It is a cardinal rule of windows that you cannot change the drive letter of your System disk. You can use disk management to change any other drive letter you want but not the System drive. There are about 50 thousand registry pointers that tell windows it is in a D drive. You would have to edit each one to successfully alter the drive letter. Format & reinstal. I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

Thanks for your comments. I guess a fresh install is in order... Another five hours of fun. yay.