2 partitions

Recently I had a virus on my computer and regardless of what I did I couldn't
get rid of it. I couldn't even run virus scans because all of my files were
locked. Eventually I decided to format and re-install. My computer is a
Gateway E4610 and it came with XP Home pre-installed. When I rebooted with
the XP disk I deleted the main partition, recreated the partition and
formatted and I re-installed XP on that partition. There is another
partition (very small) and I assumed it was the "Vendor's" so I didn't do
anything with it. Now that small partition is my C drive and what used to be
my C drive is now the D drive. Would it be a problem if I deleted both
partitions, created just 1 and installed XP on that?
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