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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sakzilla" data-source="post: 1190896" data-attributes="member: 6105">Do you have a compaq?  Some companies partition the drive (it's not XP doing it) and the "d" drive holds files the 'restore' disk will use to put the computer back to like new condition, software wise.  Couple of problems with this:1. The D drive does not retain total integrity, so you eventually will get a message stating that you must contact tech support to restore your computer (this magically happens AFTER the warranty is up).2. Add up capacity on Drives C and D and I bet they don't fully add up to your drive capacity - the partition the OEMs do is sloppy and you lose space. Outside of getting a full copy of Windows and completely wiping the machine, I thing you are stuck with the partition.As to a second drive, you are correct about not being able to add a 5th device.  your controller card can only take 4 items.  But if you have a slot for a firewire card, you could instead add another controller card and then add the '5th'drive - the new hard drive.  I too run a DVD, a CD-RW, and a Zip drive.  But with the second controller card, I have been able to add a second 80GB drive to my original (which was kindly partitioned by Compaq at the factory  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />  )Another benefit to getting the second drive is this - with such a small primary drive, get XP running on there with no problems and put EVERYTHING ELSE on the second drive.  Any system maintenance/Norton/defrags/etc. will go faster and smoother if only the OS is on the one drive.  And putting the music, programs, games, files, etc. on the second drive means you can tweak files at leisure and not run the risk of whacking your OS (especially if you play MMORGs or anything that requires hundreds of patches to stay current).Hope this helps...</blockquote>

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