Fedora and winxp

Jim lawrence.jim at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 14:57:51 UTC 2005


On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:30:30 +0800, HaJo Schatz <hajo at hajo.net> wrote:
> 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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or go to http://dban.sourceforge.net/  
download  make a floppy  
boot to floppy
at the prompt  type  autonuke 
in a few hours you will have a fully clean hard drive(s)
-- 

Have a nice day :)

James Lawrence
Rochester NY




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