Thanks foggs for your reply.
In answer to your question, the operating system on the 20 gig was xp pro sp3. It got infected with an as yet unidentified virus and still is affected.
In trying to repair it with a reload of xp from the CD, I didnt get an option to repair, it just continued to install the O/S to the 20 gig., which was Ok and gave me a clean O/S to work with, but had its drawbacks.
I tried to repair the infected system again, with direction from knowledgable persons, unfortunately the disk installed a third O/S on that drive. Neither here nor there and of no consequence, but just consuming space on the drive.
nor what was on the other formatted 80gig partition.
To clarify the 20 gig and 80 gig are not partitions they are actual Hard drives. The 80 wasnt formatted, and has some insignificant data on it.
There were only the one O/S on any of the drives (the infected win xp), the third drive is a 250 gig seagate.
what you want is not clear. starting from scratch is not necessarily your only road
My question was actually in relation to the "title "Internal 20"", as to whether it was a problem and needed to be addressed, or again insignificant and easily bypassed. As it turned out it was of no consequence and the Win XP Pro Sp3 Cd installed satisfactorily on what was the third drive in the old build, but now is the C: Drive.
The 20 gig, (infected), is now the F: drive, so caution must be used in removing or accessing any old programms that I would like to keep and/or use.
I havent actually worked out how to protect myself from the potential of that virus being transfered to the 250 gig. Short of being resigned to the fact that it may happen and I am prepared (now) to format the lot and start again if necessary. (Hopefully that wont happen
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Patio, the old drive is jumpered correctly and all is working fine. Thanks for your help.
