Nope no problem with doing it my way,done it dozens of times,the XP Upgrade disk I have is not bootable ie it will not autorun,it has to have a operating system installed on the disk to be upgraded ie win98SE,frinstance it will not upgrade earlier versions of windows,only from SE,it was a disk used by schools to upgrade their puter systems it is not a standard XP instalation disk.
Question,why does formating a disk from the disk management system in XP only give the option of the NTFS file system?it does not offer the option of formating FAT32,? I have nothing philosophically agin NTFS just I have never used it before,does it make any difference?