Last time I reformatted my laptop's hard drive I inadvertently ended up with three drives. I purposely wanted only two drives. One for the system drive and one for audio video storage. The partitions show as local c, audio video d, and a very small partition showing an e drive. The e drive showing about 55 mb. The c drive showing about 30 gb, and the audio video drive showing about 56 gb. Recently, the c drive now shows about 55 mb and the e drive shows about 30 gb. They have reversed somehow and now I get a pop-up telling me that I am running out of disk space. Has anyone run into this problem and if  so is there a fix for it?

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I inadvertently ended up with three drives

How! Laptops are often supplied with hard drive partitioned into 3 (usually a hidden recovery partition, then system and data partitions). I have seen a few with a small (like your 55MB) fat partition that has some utilities in.

But that's a bit of a side issue. 2k doesn't normally change its system partition. I'm just wondering if it really has - are you sure the letters haven't been like they are since you 'reformatted'? If they've really changed, you'd see issues because various registry entries are hard coded to the system drive - so appear as say C:\winnt\system32 in the registry where C: is system drive. If system drive has changed, those entries will point to non-existent items - which should cause a number of error messages to pop-up.

If there was a 2k boot sector on the small partition - or it was active partition when you reinstalled, it would have become the C: drive, and the system drive would take another letter.

What does the running out of disk space pop-up actually say?

Its difficult to advise until its clear exactly what's happened.