Ok this is gonna be confusing.
and Ill try to make it as short as possible.

I have three Physical Hard drives.(Is this the correct term for this. Three drives I can actualy hold in my hands?)

My C: and F:
(W Digital 320gig NTFS)
One hard drive two partitions.
My operating system windowsXP Pro is installed to the Extended partition . of my F: drive.
(How I managed to do this I will never know..??)

My E:
(W Digital 250gig NTFS)
One hard drive one partition.
Two days ago I moved everything off E: drive and converted it to NTFS instead of the Fat32 that is was.

My D:and G:
(W Digital 200gig NTFS)
One hard drive two partitions.
Until today.Now one hard drive and one partition.
And as of about two hours ago these are no longer Overlapped. A Long time ago I had somehow managed to overlap them. So both were showing errors in any partition manager.(Interesting enough Windows Never did show that.)

But anyway I moved everything thing off of them and I partitioned/formatted this one with only one NTFS partition now.


So what I am wanting to do is put Windows Xp NTFS on my W Digital 250 gig which is now my E drive. want to make that my C drive boot drive.( I guess it would be called my boot drive?)

then I will move all the files off of the C and F drive as I want to get the operating system off of that extended partition ..
and eventually wipe it clean and start fresh with it as well.
Would like that (the W Digital 320gig NTFS)to be in Two partitions.
Don't Have to be but would like it to be in two.
as I have read somewhere about having one partition for ram only? but that will come after I tackle this part first. One mountain at a time

I really don't care what drive letter anything has except I want my C: drive to be the default.
as ""Everyone else seems to make it their default.

And it looks like to me that I don't have anything set to active right now. From what I can tell anyway..

I am going to upload a couple of pictures to help show what I am seeing.

One is picture of my Computer managment and one is what partiton manager program shows.

http://i31.tinypic.com/2qn1con.jpg

and

http://i29.tinypic.com/28uofnr.jpg


the good thing here is I am all NTFS and finally wont be overlapped anymore.

I will wait to have some instructions before I dare to turn this thing off. as I am not sure what is what drive at this moment.

Looks like I need to set something to active and put all the drive letters in place as well? is this right?
And if this was/is a lucky guess can anyone tell me how to do this?
If not a lucky guess maybe someone could tell what I DO need to do.

And don't know if I need to post this or not but I do have 2 dvd/cd burners and a floppy drive as well.

Hope this all made since..
to someone besides myself who I can confuse most of the time.!


Thanks for any help in advance.