If you don't want to burn a cd in order to get the service pack.
You can always get it from microsoft since it's free.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp3/default.asp
Seems you had a corrupt format or install of XP.
What program did you use to format the drive?
Maybe you should run the XP setup again and let it format the drive for you.
Well I had a similar problem in Windows Server 2003.
For some reason my drive just went haywire and disappeared and was saying that it was RAW.
Fortunately I was able to recover the data using Ontrack software and doing a Format recovery while telling it that the previous file system was NTFS...
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