Originally posted by Big Booger
FG pointed you to one way albeit a very long way, in solving this quandry.
How dare you ...hehe

Aside from changing jumpers on the HD it's faster not "very long way" you see that 80gig HD will format faster in Windows than it will from a booted XP CD...tested many times by FG himself after that everything is the same.

Anyhoo I gave this cuz it's an easy way to install XP that doesn't boot