I found an old laptop XP at home and it has a Windows XP setup disk so I put it in booted from it (there were 0 files on the laptop.) So I clicked on Install XP chose my Hard Drive and I said the disk can not be formatted. PLEASE HELP

Try cute partition manager. Free and works. Partition and format. Set drive as active all in 1 shot. D/l on another comp. Run the exe to create a bootable disk. G/l. WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.

Yep thanks it seems to work now ;-))