windows xp on two drives after reinstall attempt

Hi, Kelly.

If you really want to start fresh, just boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and tell
it to (repartition, if you like, and) reformat your hard drive. Unless you
plan to install Win9x/ME on this computer some day, let it use NTFS all the
way.

This is the time to decide if you want a single partition or two. WinXP
will be just as happy either way. Many of us like to have a fairly small
(3-6 GB?) Drive C: with just the operating system in it, and a second
partition for our programs and data. Then, if we need to reformat one
partition, we don't need to disturb the other. Let Setup create and format
Drive C:, then use Disk Management to create and format any other partitions
that you like after WinXP is installed and running.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP

"kelly l." <kelly@ourside.net> wrote in message
news:04f101c35ac0$cad715e0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

> At the risk of sounding dumb this is my first time using
> XP and after a game install my system went south programs
> opening very slow, crashing ext.....
>
> system restoe did nothing. my attempt at a reinstall
> resulted in a daul boot system with the origanl install
> on dive c (fat32) and the scond on drive d(ntfs)
>
> how can i format (ntfs) both drives and start fresh.
>
> thanks for anr help in advance.