Fedora and winxp

harald kapper hk at kapper.net
Tue Jan 4 14:26:29 UTC 2005


Langer, Christian schrieb:
> I installed Fedora on my home computer, overwriting winxp.  I thought,
> that was fun, now I will go back to Winxp.  I started from the Winxp cd,
> the prompt said strike any key to start from cd, and then nothing, just
> a blank screen.  Finally I started from a: with a Win98 startup disk,
> did fdisk on the drive, making it dos, and then the Winxp cd began
> working.  Now, when I try to start from the Winxp cd, with winxp
> installed, I get the same blank screen.  Any thoughts?

I guess you should try booting from a win98-bootdisk
then enter "fdisk /mbr" to overwrite the master-boot-record on your 
harddisk - afterwards you should be able to boot XP again.

hth
hk




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