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"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7ECBE950-CF03-45CA-9424-F4BBFECD4465@microsoft.com...
> Help. I have a 160gb hdd in a system which was only running Vista. I
> decided
> to wipe and clean install XP, but when XP gets to its partitioning screen,
> it
> sees a 24mb MBR volume and then a 'disc' with no drive on it. I cannot do
> anything to partition the free space on the drive.
>
> I have tried going through Vista setup and deleting the partition, which
> it
> claims it did, but XP still can't see the disc. I have also tried fixmbr
> with
> no luck.
>
> I'm sure this is a relatively easy fix, but I'm not sure what else to try.

You can use the manu's software to wipe the disk.

C.