my computer is showing 2 hard drives

[Guest]

my computer is showing to hard drives a C and a D C has nothing in it and
Dhas all the program files etc. for the computer..i have been trying to
download a program for my son to play a game and it tells me i don't have
enough disk space. the C drive has 748 mg of space and the D drive has 27.9
gb what i want to know is how can i get rid of the C drive that has nothing
in it and just have the D drive that contains all the files? we had to
install a new operating system on this computer i think it had to do with
when that was done they did not install it on the c drive that was originally
there.

 

[Rich Barry]

What's the actual size of the C: drive or partition since you may only
have one drive and it's divided into two partitions?
You should find out where the boot.ini file is. If on the C: drive then
you will have to relocate it to the D:
You can accomplish this when in WinExplorer>select Tools>Folder
Options>View>Click on Show hidden files and
folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files. This will
allow boot.ini to show up if it's there. You also will
have to move the ntldr, ntdetect.com and Bootsect.dos if that's there.
You can then delete the C: partition from Disk Management. Rt click on
MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. Finally using the Recovery Console
you can
use the Bootcfg command to repair the boot.ini file. How to do this can
be found here. You will be primarily interested in
bootcfg /scan and bootcfg /rebuild. So, to sum up move those three or
four files over to D: if on C:, then go ahead and
delete C: and finally using the RC rebuild the Boot.ini file. Good Luck.
Though as I am writing all this it might be just as easy to do a clean
install of XP. Boot from the CD and choose New Install>Advanced which will
allow you to delete the C: and D: partitions and create just a new C:
That's contingent on the
data you have on D: If important back it up or just follow plan A

 

[Rich Barry]

Forgot to include the link to RC
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314058