Thanks, SSp. I'll have a crack at that.
I also had a loan of some sort of boot up disk off a friend where it had a kind of Partition prog, and that said 2 parts of the main HD were "active" yet one of them didnt exist ! I split the 80 gig Western Digital HD up into 5 parts, F, G, H, J, K
F was 28gig, and this mystery partition was neither NTS or Fat32, it was "extended" or somesuch (beginning with E anyway !) I couldnt do a damn thing with it. What is it ? It was down as 45 gig !