hey once again The delete partition using windows disk went horribly wrong.... i pressed D and deleted then created a new one, still when i press enter to progress to the installation of windows XP it says "Its not a WINDOWS XP compatible partition" and takes me back to the screen to select a partition to delete, i tried all options and nothing worked, i tried other copies of windows XP and doesnt work... i just cant seem to install XP on that C:, this never ahppened before, i just cant delete D: so i would like someone to help me im rly desperate here .| ty in advance PS: It says this: To install windows XP on the partition you selected, Setup must write some start startup files to the following disk: 28616 MB Disk 0 Id 0 on bus 0 atapi [MBR] However, this disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition. To continue installation Windows XP, return to the partition selection screen and create a windows XP- compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no free space on the disk, delete an existing partition, and then create a new one.