tammie,
Forget the PM that I sent you re: phone call ... No need for the conversation as the answer became very simple when I found the link listed below. You can leave your old drive as the C:drive on hubbys machine and wipe his drive clean for use as a "data" drive after you legitimize your XP. To do that, go here:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5102-1035-5034890.htmland follow the directions. I'd recommend that you use the "windows registry editor option" because the "WMI option" is for systems with XP or XP/SP1, and I'm going to assume you already have SP2 installed.
Changing the registry can be problematic if not done carefully and correctly, (hence the warning) ...
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but the step by step procedures in the link are very detailed and you should not have any problems following it.
Hopefully, this will get you where you need to go without having to delete/reload everything.
BTW, Timgod makes a good recommendation re: multiple physical and/or logical drives. I've two physical drives in my PC, a 20gB and a 120gB. The 20 gig drive is divided into 2 logical drives C: & D:. The C drive contains ONLY Windows while the D:drive is my "Programs" drive. The 120 gig drive is for data, all the info stored by any of the programs located on D: as well as My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos, My Music, etc. is all sent to the Data (E:) drive. I back up the E:drive daily (automatically) and the C:/D: drive monthly (also automatically). All of this helps reduce fragmentation, makes it easy to update the OS or Programs, makes data backup very easy and is probably overkill for the things I have on my PC, but I'm kind of OC/anal that way ...
I hope this helps as I know what a pita it is to reload all the programs/data when you do a drive change.
Keep Smilin'
John
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