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Last time I installed Red Hat (which was a while ago now), it gave me an option of how I wanted to partition my drive -- automatic partitioning with some weird utility or manual partitioning with fdisk. Since Fedora is closely related to Red Hat, it might give you a similar option. Choose manual partitioning. It should give you a table that shows what sort of partitions you have and how big they are. There should be at least one: your windows xp partition, and there should also be some free, unpartitioned space. Have a look at the partition table and post the list of partitions up on this forum.
i know this is done and dusted, but i think i should add my 2 cents
1. The program the installer uses i believe is called Disk Druid
2. I had a similar problem where he installer wouldn't partition and it turned out the reason was that i had too many primary partitions (i made my swap partition logical to fix it)
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