Windows XP Professional installer not recognising or partitioninghard drive correctly. Possible to

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I bought a computer second-hand about a year ago. Windows XP
Professional was already installed on it, and I installed a Linux
distribution in a separate partition. The hard drive that came with
it was in a bad state, but I failed to act on the many signs my
computer was giving out before it was too late. I have since bought a
new hard drive and put it in the computer, but that has left me
without Windows XP.

I have been able to reinstall the Linux distribution with no problems,
but when I try to reinstall Windows XP I get an error at the disk
partition stage. The error reads, "Setup was unable to format the
partition. The disk may be damaged." I know there are no problems
with the disk because I have run the manufacturer's disk utility to
check it for errors, and I have formatted the disk with it as well. I
have also noticed that when I use a Windows XP Home CD, I can complete
the installation with no problems. Trying to upgrade the Home
installation with the Professional CD works until reboot, where I get
the error Stop 0x00000024.

Unless there is a way of solving this issue of the installer not being
able to format the partitions correctly, is there a way around this
stage of setup such as copying certain files into the reserved
partition and then booting from it?
 
I'm not familiar with Linux, but I think that I've seen this before when
trying to install XP to a drive with a non-Windows boot sector. (the STOP
0x24 error is an error in the NTFS file system).

Unfortunately, the "fix" is to wipe the drive clean, then install XP, then
install Linux.

- John
 
I'm not familiar with Linux, but I think that I've seen this before when
trying to install XP to a drive with a non-Windows boot sector. (the STOP
0x24 error is an error in the NTFS file system).

Unfortunately, the "fix" is to wipe the drive clean, then install XP, then
install Linux.

- John
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No way. I already tried installing Windows to the drive when there
was nothing on it. I have formatted the hard drive with the
manufacturer's own prorgram and tried instaling Windows, have used the
WIndows installer to format the drive, used GParted to create
partitons. Nothing works when I try to use the Windows XP
Professional CD, but the Windows XP Home one works with no problems.
 
No way.  I already tried installing Windows to the drive when there
was nothing on it.  I have formatted the hard drive with the
manufacturer's own prorgram and tried instaling Windows, have used the
WIndows installer to format the drive, used GParted to create
partitons.  Nothing works when I try to use the Windows XP
Professional CD, but the Windows XP Home one works with no problems.
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By chance, does the XP Pro CD not contain SP1 preinstalled in it and
XP Home does??
 
By chance, does the XP Pro CD not contain SP1 preinstalled in it and
XP Home does??
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Wow yeah, the XP Professional CD has SP3 on it and the XP Home CD is
SP1.
 
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