Formatting before Win XP Pro setup

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From: Jan Mark (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:15:16 -0700

I have Win2k Pro and have tried to make a clean install of
XP Pro on a second new HDD. Two attempts have failed and I
now get three choices when I boot: 1) XP Setup 2) XP
Professional or 3) Windows 2000.

Booting from XP Pro CD and choosing 1) gives: "Setup
cannot load keyboard layoutfile KBDUS.DLL" (The XP Pro CD
and my Win2k Pro are in english, but my language is
swedish).

Choosing 2) gives: "Could not start Windows\system32
\hal.dll, missing or corrupt. Reinstall a copy".

Choosing 3) starts Win2k without any problems.

I would like to reformat my new drive D and start all
over. However when I try this from Windows I get the
message: "Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk
utilities or other programs that are using this drive".

I have tried to format through Partition Magic 8 after
closing Norton Antivirus as I was told and still get the
message: "Unable to write to the boot sector. Virus
protecting software may be running".

Is there any other way I can format my new drive so that I
can make my XP installation? As it is now my old drive C
with Win2k is master and the new drive D is slave. Shall I
change this before installing XP. I want to keep Win2k and
gradually move my applications to XP since I have read
that it is safer to make a clean install instead of an
upgrade.

Grateful for any tips

Jan Mark

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