If you created a partition, but didn't format it, all should have to do is 
to boot from the WinXP disk and select this partition as the destination for 
XP and format it, then install.

I've done this many times without any problem.

Good luck.

On 7/8/05, augie <grayfox78@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Pluggers,
> I recently installed CentOS 405 on a boxen that I'm setting up as a file
> server, and during the partitioning segment I created a 20 gig partition 
> as
> free space but it doesn't show up anywhere. I'm hoping to format it as 
> vfat
> so that I can load winxp on it. Any words of wisdom as to how I can
> accomplish this?
> --
> augie
> grayfox78 at cox dot net
> 
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