horatio,
no, i did not go into the box, etc. i was trying to insert a letter to the cd drive, (it shows drive #0, instead of G:) when i tried to do that w/ win2k, it kept saying i must create "dynamics..." so i went along, even it gave me warning about changes, etc. i cannot be coherent here because it have encountered this before. the first time, i did not go along; that was yesterday. when same message came up again, i went ahead this morning--i did that after the PC kept rebooting itself. i thought it must something to do with "dynamics .." something. when that was done, the screen message says: "old partition #3 has been changed to partion #5; edit boot.ini immediately, otherwise you won't be able to reboot."
when i used safemode to get into win2k, go to disk management, it shows the drives, fat32, etc. under the column "type" it says: "dynamic" i have not a slightest idea what that is.
any incoherent in this post is not intentional; it is due to ignorance. thanks for calming me down, horatio. i am a little panicky!