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When you have a decent size disk it's generally agreed that 12Gb is the best size for the system partition. Running out of space on the C:\ drive is not good news. The Documents and Settings folder can be a bitch as every app and it's aunt writes to it and it's not at all easy to relocate. Anything over 12Gb can cause problems for disk repair software and the like.
Watching IE default to grabbing 5% (IIRC) of the disk space for temporary files can be fun. Who needs more than a couple of meg for temp files?
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It doesn't let me, I've tried twice (I had expected it would). It allowed me to delete one partition but wouldn't let me do anything to the other. It wouldn't let me do what I wanted which was delete the lot and format the drive as one big lump. All it would allow me to do is install a clean version over the existing version -- without giving me a format option.
Silly question (maybe), but are you booting from the Win2000 installation disk or trying to run it after booting from the HD? If the HD is supplying the OS then it will not shoot itself in the head, and delete its own partition. If it is booted up from the CD then it should let you repartition the drive.

If all else fails remove drive and connect to another computer on a USB adaptor and clear the lot.

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