I re-installed Xp to my C drive and it works just fine but looking at the file system, I am seeing a "Windows" folder in my D drive still. I also have the one in the C drive that I just re-installed. What is the deal with that? I guess I should mention that when Xp is starting up it shows there are two choices to start xp pro,thats a new one for me. Can anyone help? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, DB

If there was a drive (e.g. drive d) plugged to you pc with an already installed windows and you installed windows again, but this time to your drive c, windows gets confured and uses parts of both windows installations, drive C and drive D. So it can happen, that when you plug off you drive D, that your windows is completely unable to start. When installing windows, there should be no other drive with an already installed windows. If must be plugged off physically. It woun't work if you only disable it in the BIOS. Windows recognizes the drive even if it's disabled in BIOS. Paul

You have created a dual boot system. This happens when you install XP to a new hard drive partition when there already exists a windows OS in another. The new XP install recognises the presence of the other Windows OS and configures the system to give you the option of booting into the new one or the other older one. If you did not want that, then during install of the new OS, you would either have to remove the hard drive containing the old OS or hide the partition that it is contained in. If C: is your primary active partition, then you could do away with the other OS (by either removing the hard drive or formatting the partition containing the old OS) and update your boot.ini in the new OS to not prompt you to select the OS. Note C: has to be the primary active partition as it will be the one that hosts the system boot files for both OSes. You still need that for the new OS. ___________________________________________ ☺ When everything else fails, read the instructions.

Could the D partition be a recovery partition? Before posting try google. Backup. Use anti virus software.