formatting hard drive upon installation of windows xp

[Brian]

I'm wanting to format my hard drive when i install
windows xp and it wont let me. why not?

[Bob Willard]

Brian wrote:

> I'm wanting to format my hard drive when i install
> windows xp and it wont let me. why not?

If you boot from a XP CD, that will let you format the HD.
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Cheers, Bob