Can anyone suggest something? Dual-Boot problem!!

[thraxed]

There are third party boot managers that allow you to hide partitions upon boot so ya could have both hard drives loading up as C: Sorry don't remember the name off hand, though a dedicated googlist can find anything.

[jambon squirrel]

thanks for the info... I'm a little confused at what is causing this to happen, maybe someone could explain...

But with my rather limited knowledge would i be right in saying that if I partitioned my new drive and installed XP on the second partition and removed it from the first, would i be removing the conflict?? and if so, is there any way for me to return my original drive back to C:, without reformatting it??

Thanks again...