So let me get this straight, you are missing about 1.6 gigs on your harddrive? Well, I am not sure about xp pro, but xp home takes about 1.5 gigs to load on the harddrive. That would be about right though, the operating system does use disk space. Am I even in the same ballpark as you are on your question? Sorry if I missed something.

hi.you are rite it does takup about 1.6 gigs.so i canned my harddrive with duplicate file finder and every thing is a double.i dont want to just start deleteing every thing...........

whenever i reinstall a fresh copy of my OS, i usually delete the old one 1st. then i boot from a diskette then start my installation. in doing so, i'm always sure that i dont leave duplicate useless, space-wasting files...

IF you want boot up windows xp from the disk and choose to delete and format the partition.

Windows XP Pro will take up about 2~ gigs/.

hi.oalee.the problem with the cd is that its not booting so i had to install over xp home.i need to find out how to replace the boot file on my cd.so i can make it bootable again and then reinstall xp pro....

could you boot from a floppy (start up disk) .insert the cd in the drive type the letter of your cd-rom drive (probably d shen type setup.exe to install from the disk it worked for me. but fdisk and format your HDD first and use a clean install.
or even when i first upgraded to xp pro from 98se i booted 98se inserted the xp cd clicked upgrade in the cd options. after the installation of xp the drive still had all my previous settings and ONLY had xp pro which i then had the choice of unninstalling xp in add remove programs

hi drummerboy i just found a site to get my xp pro floppys to make the cd bootable.check it out.http://www.compphix.com/windowsxpbootdisks.html

cool clearice i hope it sorts your problem

hi.drummerboy.there has to be a easyer way to do this i have both xp home and pro installed i should be able to delete the xp home some how?.instead of reformating.......