good luck then.

let us know how it goes.

wont let me delete it

what is the error?

does it say it is in use?

it says some folders are in use.

rt. click my computer the click manage the choose disk management

how are the partitions labled there?

also rt click C just to check if the option to delete partion is greyed out.

C is labled healthy, D is labled boot, yes its grayed out

C is Healthy (system)?

ya i know confused me too

i have a guy coming out on friday to work on it for free. thx for all your help though

I am still curious about how & why you installed the second XP.
Wondering if you can uninstall the second one you installed & recover the first.
But if you don't want to go into it there is this Quote I found:

Removing the first WinXP is a simple two-step process. Simple to do,
that is; but it takes a lot of words to explain. :>{

1. To remove the "bad" copy of WinXP, boot into the "good" copy and delete
the bad copy's "boot folder".

2. To remove the "bad" copy choice from the opening menu, delete that line
from [operating systems] in C:\boot.ini.

The only hard part about step 1 is identifying the proper boot folder. By
default, WinXP Setup always names the boot folder \Windows; if you have two
WinXP installations, they may be C:\Windows and X:\Windows. (If you
insisted on putting both WinXP installations into a single volume, the
second one may be something like C:\Windows(1). If you upgraded to WinXP
from WinNT4 or Win2K, the boot folder might have inherited the name \WinNT.)
If you try to delete the one that is currently in use, WinXP will refuse to
kill itself.

Step 2 can be done in any of several ways. Perhaps the simplest is to run
msconfig, click its BOOT.INI tab and then Check All Boot Paths. (Do this
AFTER deleting the "bad" boot folder in Step 1.) Or edit C:\boot.ini in
Notepad, after removing its System, Hidden and Read-only attributes. Or
click the Edit button in System Properties | Advanced | Startup and Recovery
Settings.