installation of xp pro I have two local drives, why?

I reinstall XP Pro and it comes up with the rotation of my c drive in a local c and e readers. When I tried again and remove the e drive, it gives me the opportunity to put windows on the partitioned drive c or the part not partitioned. I chose the part not partitioned. If I went to put it on the drive c partitioned, he replied that there is another system.

I thought that you have been reinstalling windows. Looks like windows is screwed!

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