“this disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition”

Yesterday I used Partition Magic to repartition and format my harddisks. I formated the partitions with NTFS system format with no problem.
I tried to install Window XP2 to C driver but an error occured. Here’s exactly what is showing on the screen:
“To install Windows XP on the partition you selected, Setup must write some startup files to the following disk.

20480 Mb Disk0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]
C: Partition1 (LocalDisk1) [NTFS] 20471 (20475Mb free)

However this disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition.

To continue installing Windows XP, return to the partition selection screen and create a windows XP-compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no free space on the disk delete an existing partition and create a new one.”

I crazily and totally wasted whole day to find out what is cause of this problem and solution. I was totally mad with this.
At the end of day I accidently found solution.
I restarted the PC and press DEL key to log into BIOS setup. I don’t remember exact what features I changed in Advanced Bios features but I’m sure 100% It work for me.
After changing the BIOS, save and exit the BIOS (or press F10).
And Now I can install XP smoothly without ANY error appeared

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