help deleting an xp partition

Greetings,

Yesterday I opened something I shouldn't have, and hosed my XP partition. My computer's disk management information can be found below. I'm seeking to reinstall XP on the corrupted partition / delete the XP partition, repartition the drive again, and then reinstall XP. Could someone take a minute and outline the steps (and p'raps web resources so that I can use this as a learning experience) and programs which I'll need in order to achieve this? While I understand this process in theory, I'm here because the XP partition is the primary, and I'm quite afraid of doing irreperable damage in my bumblings...

Disk 0
D: <-- XP sp 2, comprimised
Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
C: <-- Vista64, uncomprimised
Healthy (boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Log

Disk 1
E:
Healthy (Primary Partition)

I appreciate your time and responses. If I've posted in the wrong place, please put me in the right thread. Thanks.

Scott.

Hi Scott, and welcome to the Vista forums

The easiest way I can suggest is have a look at the tutorial here ...

How to dual-boot Vista with XP (with XP installed first) - step-by-step guide with screenshots

it should explain what you need to do but any further questions post back

well, I think that's jumping the gun here... and that's awesome for the 2nd half of my issue (reinstalling xp correctly)...

but my comprimised partition is the primary & system ... how do I make it so my non-comprimised partition has these attributes?

Hi Scott,

are you able to boot into Vista?

If you are then the boot files are on the vista partition, ( this is normal as the default is to place the boot files on the start-up of the newest OS ), and it should be no problem to proceed with the re-install of XP as described in the step by step.

If not and you have the original Vista disk, use this to perform a start-up repair on the Vista install. when you have this completed, and vista is booting correctly you can can re-install XP.

Some more reading for you I'm afraid ...

Startup Repair - Vista Forums

If you do not have the original Vista disk to do the repair have a look at the options here ...

Create a Recovery Disc - Vista Forums

Hope this helps

yup. Let me read through and work it out... hopefully I'll have great news in an hour or two...