OT: Computer's...gotta hate 'em.

[Thermodyne]

Tell me how you got to where you are now. Did you build a bootable CD? Or did you run setup from windows?

To use the partition tools from the setup cd, you need to have booted from it. Otherwise, if you booted to windows on c:, the files are in use and it won't let you whack them.

Once your boot to the cd, select the partition, hit d then enter then L IIRC. It tells you what to hit as needed. Then select the unused space and hi c. It will ask you how much space to allocate. With all the apps that have to install at least part of their content to c: and patches and such, at least 10gigs, 20 would be better if you can afford the space. Put the rest in a second partition up to 50gigs or so. Any larger than that and you are really starting to waste space. Two 40's would be better than 1 80gig partition.