hi

i have 2 hardrives on my computer

but when i start up it show 4 drives and then sayes low disc space

runnin xp pro sp2

how can i resolve this back to two hardrives

Each hard drive must be split into 2 partitions, or one drive might be split into w partitions.

Please report more information.

What are the sizes of the two actual physical drives?

What are the drive letters and sizes of the drives as reported in 'My computer'?

Which drive has Windows installed on it, and what is the available space on that one please?

okay thankyou

the drives are 60g each well th etwo physical ones then there is 2 more the letters are c,d,e,f, c has 20g b has 20g c has 20g and d has 60 how do i make them repartioned into two windows xp is installed ion c and wen i install anythink else it says memeroy full

hmm

do you reakon its been partionied forur time would a reinstall of window wipe em off

No a reinstall will not repartition the drive ,you will need to use windows Fdisk or a 3 party software like Partition Magic .
this site will help.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q255867

so would i have 2 join lall my hadrive back together if u get me in a lame begginers way

To 'join it back together' without losing your Windows installation, your programs and all your data you will need to use a commercial program. There are no free ones that are good enough for the job.

You don't need to join them back together anyway. you're only running out of room because you are allowing everything to go to the smaller Windows partition.

I'll give instructions for moving 'My Documents' and your installed programs to one of the other partitions a bit later (when I've got the time to do so) and that would 'fix' your problem for you

o so wen i want to install anythink i choose a differeent drive okay i get u now but it seems stupid that ive seperated everything

If I am currect, only one hard drive is split up?

When you set up XP, during one of the steps, it says "To Delete the Selected Partition, Press D" or something of that nature. You can use this to delete all of the partitions on the split drive before reinstalling the operating system on that drive. When you install XP on unpartitioned space, it creates a partition that basically fills the entire hard drive (I think it leaves a tiny insignificant amount left over). Since the other drive isn't split, you don't have to do anything in it.

Of course, this requires reinstallation of the operating system. If that's what you're willing to do to get rid of that, I don't blame you.

Edit: Heavily modified to correct misunderstanding.

Umm.....

You didn't explain that what you describe eliminates all programs and data files on the drive