Hi, thanks for the quick reply, I followed your instructions, and in the disk mgmt window there is only the hdd, C, and the cd rom drives showing as present, no black bar with XXX GB unallocated, the 2 windows installations were folders in the C drive, named, windows, and windows. 0, and not partitions, i didn't see prtscn tab to show you a screenshot sorry, would be greatful for any further suggestions, thanks, Bob