Thanks Cromewell for the info,is it possible to leave the partitions as they are and just use the larger one,my only problem is that the smaller partition seems to be taking the lead,is there away to reverse the partitions i can't find a way to do this,the smaller partition is highlighted in green and i can't highlight the larger partition.I have installed xp and phoned MS for an activation code once already how many times can i do this?Thanks alot.