Reformatting killed me

[Skunk]

I recently decided to reformat my system HD and do a fresh install of windows XP. I accidentaly clicked the wrong thing and installed it first to my secondary HD. I have since reformatted the system drive and succesfully installed windows on it.
My problem is that now I dont know how to remove windows xp from the other drive. I cant afford to do a format on it because it contains vast amounts of data I cant afford to lose.
I manually deleted everything I could besides the folders I want, leaving me with only "system volume information" and "recyclyer" left. Should I have these, even though I dont have windows on that drive and if not how do I get rid of them? Also are there other things I need to remove?
Thanks in advance for any help.

[Wilbert]

Perhaps you will get some reactions here :)

[jfpolo]

Make another partition in that HD, move all the stuff that you want to keep there, then reformat the partition with the windows you want to get ride, after that you cant resize the partition with the stuff to absorbe the other partition already formatted. :sly:

[Smile2]

Partitioning have some risk of corrupting the HD, and you need space for the data itself..

get a DVD Burner, and Backup all your data on DVDs. Time consuming it is, but it should be cheap and safe.