Format Hard Disk

I have Win2K Pro installed in the C:\ drive & WinXP Pro installed in
the D:\ drive of my m/c. Due to some reasons, Win2K just refuses to
start though while booting it shows the 'Windows is starting up...'
screen along with the Win2K logo after which Win2K restarts itself. The
C:\ & D:\ drives are partitioned with each having hard disk size of
9.32GB. All my MP3s exist in the D:\ drive. All these MP3s occupy
almost 6GB of the hard disk space (out of the available 9.32GB in D:\).
Since almost 70% of the hard disk space in D:\ is occupied by MP3s, I
am running short of hard disk space in the D:\ drive to install other
heavy-duty programs like .NET2.0, it's SDK, documentation, tutorials,
SQL Server 2005 & it's SDK, documentation & tutorials, Visual Web
Developer 2003 Express Edition etc.

Since I am not being allowed to log into Win2K, to free up space in
D:\, I want to delete all the folders existing in C:\ (i.e. delete the
folders 'Documents and Settings', 'Program Files', 'WINNT' & all the
other system files & folders/sub-folders existing in C:\) without
uninstalling the programs existing in Win2K & without removing the user
profiles & then transfer all the MP3s existing in the D:\ drive to the
C;\ drive (so that I can install the heavy-duty programs in D:) & then
re-install Win2K in the C:\ drive.

What I would like to know is would such an approach be advisable?

The bottom line is I don't want WinXP Pro (which is installed in the
D:\ drive) or the programs I have already installed in WinXP to get
affected in any way if I take this approach. Neither should the MP3s in
the C:\ drive be affected in any way.

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