In closing, to install XP, we don't format the drive. Here's a pictorial of a XP install. A dos disk with fdisk and format was never used. That's an old method that is not used for XP.
Read http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/InstallXPHome/installxphome1.htm
Bob

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