Installing server 2003 R2 from a HD partition

hi,
iv'e been rebuilding my workstation and planned on installing windows server 2003 on it, unfortunatly my disk was scratched beyond repair but pulled an iso from the msdn website.
My question: can i install server 2003 from a partition on my workstation?
example: HDD total size is 500GB (partition 1 is 400GB, partition 2 is 100GB) my plan was to put the iso contents on partition 2 and boot from my windows XP installation still on partion 1. i don't wan't to dual boot OS if i may add, the plan is to format/overwrite
the windows xp OS

Since you have the ISO I'd just burn the image and boot the new installation media.
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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