ya heres to answer some or ur questions, my hard drive is just c:, my d: is the cd rom and i made the boot disk from the add/remove programs. and ya i formated everything and ran dos off the boot disk and went to go look at d: and it said invalid drive. As for the windows cd its just the installation cd, u might be able to boot from it but i wouldnt know cuz i cant use the d: drive. help