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)
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Have a nice day :)
James Lawrence
Rochester NY
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