XP and Partition Magic

[mad230580]

well it goes a little something like this, running XP pro and partition magic 7, but want to clean install XP, but all the things I have downloaded are stored on the partition I made with PM7, basically looking to find out if I did format would the partition still be there, I know this is probably a dumb question but I used to partition back in the days of fdisk so not too sure if PM does the same or if it loads things 1st to activate the partition

[scouse]

yep you can do a full clean install od Xp on your C drive i take it your partition is D rive?? if you boot up with cd rom as your first boot and have the Xp in the drive ready you will be givin the choice from Xp to just format C drive leaving D alone then reinstall Xp on drive C