XP on D drtive s/b onC

"Leon" <mraugust4u@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Help
>
> I purchased Win XP Home Edition and installed it on my
> computer. When the new windows was installed it installed
> on my D drive and not on my C drive thus leaving me with
> Win XP but no programs or access to the Internet. Can you
> help me correct this problem as simply as possible I have
> some lite technical help available. I still have access
> to my Email and programs through windows ME on my C
> drive. The product is registered and I have all the
> numbers given at the time.
>
> Your help with this situation would be greatly appreciated
> as I don't want to experiment and make the situation worse.
>
> Thanks
> Leon August

I am sure as to why this happpened, but I am unsure if you were attempting
to upgrade your ME to XP, or make XP a totally new install, only you can
answer that before a fix or option is given.

In any case, what you have done is install XP as a new install 9not an
upgrade) on an available partition (as far as I can tell from your post).
This means, by the way I see it, that you have a dual boot scenario, and
when you turn on your PC, or reboot it, you should get two operating systems
to choose from. One is ME, the other XP. You need to used the "arrow" keys
on your keyboard to make a choice. If that choice doesn't show, then it is
possible that there is too short a timer, or no timer at all to allow that
option, and it boots right into Windows ME (but I think this scenario is
unlikely, the timer is default in this situation, but possible to not have a
timer).

The other scenario is that you cannot dual boot, because you have/had a
program set XP up on another primary partition, which would require a boot
loader to access it.

Only you can tell us that by what you see when you boot up. Also try looking
here to see if you have a dual boot scenario that I mentioned first.

Open the "C:" drive, then at the top, go to "tools', "folder options", then
the "view" tab, and then uncheck the box "Show hidden files and folders".
You then should see a file called "boot.ini" open that, and see if you
notice two instances of Windows (if it does, then you're dual booting, if
not, then the second scenario).