My computer gave up the ghost on the weekend so my only option was to re-install the OS. After much searching I discovered that I had to change the bootup in the bios and re-boot of the XP recovery CD.
I did the repair option in the disc setup, it seemed to work and everything was fine I thought until I noticed my hard drive letters were ass backwards.
Drive D: was my main NTFS file drive and drive C: was myFAT32 file.
I first thought I could live with that but re-installing my software got to be near impossible cause every thing wanted to go in my C: drive.
So I went back to my recovery CD and reformatted again but this time did not use the repair option. I then deleted my D and C partitions and started totally from scratch. I used the NTFS "quick" mode-it labeled it drive C so I thought again I was good to go. I let it do its thing but upon inspection my hard drive has no partition and is called drive C. I know before the crash I also had a drive D: FAT32 in that hard drive but I don't know what it did.
My computer seems to be working fine without a FAT32 partition on the hard drive. Is this something I should try to format and put back in or should I even bother. Is it kinda important?
Any advise would be greatly appreciated cause I know just enuff about this crap to be dangerous. Thanks.
Computers suck..........

If your computer is working fine I would leave it as it is. As long as all of your hard drive capacity is there you're ok. If you have unformatted/missing space, you can go into Computer Management in Control Panel and look for the storage section and play around with the partitions there. You can't partition an existing drive from there, but you can format unformatted space. You can also change drive letters there as well, but I'm not sure how that works for system drives (i.e. changing your C drive)

You don't need FAT32 on an exclusively Windows PC. When installing programs, you can tell them to install on a different drive. C is usually the system drive and that's why they try install there.

Hope this helps some.

You could have changed the hard drive order in the BIOS, which could cause the install disc to install the boot sector on the wrong drive or create incorrect drive assignments. I've run into similar issues when reinstalling XP on a multi-drive system. XP has no issues running on a drive other than C: but problems arise if you try to change it back. If you need to change the drive letters back to their original assignments, make sure the C: drive is the first hard drive listed in the BIOS. I put the CD-ROM ahead of the first hard drive.

Computers now days usually come with a D: FAT32 partition which is used to bring your PC back to factory defaults in case of disaster.

You probably erased this partition when you reformatted without using the recovery option.

Your PC is fully functional without this partition, however you won't be able to bring it back to factory default again.