That's old-school kicking in.
Look at http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/InstallXPPro/installxppro1.htm and notice that no format was ever done by the user. Partitions were deleted, created and the XP installer prepares the new space.
Bob
Im trying to install XP onto my computer and in order to do that I need to format my hard drive. But I have windows 2000 and it says that I cannot format a network drive? How do I get around this? Thanks in advance!

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