Fedora and winxp

[HaJo Schatz]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:20 -0600, Langer, Christian wrote:
> 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?

That question is better asked on a WIN mailing list than here as this is
a WIN issue, not FC.

But anyway -- I have a PC with a similar issue over here and got some
experience. The WIN XP installer will first come up with it's initial
blue display, ask you to press ENTER or something and then scan your
hardware. At this point, mine fails due to a Linux partition.

So if yours fails before the first blue display, you have most likely an
issue with your boot CD. Try it on another machine first or get another
copy.


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