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no you do not have to do that, if you have the xp pro disc all you do is make sure you have the computer set to boot up from the cd drive first put your xp pro disc in the drive switch your computer off and straight back on and as long as your first boot device is set to cd rom the xp pro will boot straight to the screen it will tell you to press any key to continue, do that and then follow the instructions to do a fresh clean install that will format your drive wipe clean and install xp pro fresh for you which by the way is the best thing to do.
after you ahve done that and all is loaded you then ahve to reinstall SP1 if you have it on disc thats good if not you will have to download it again from the internet.
good luck.
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