Fedora and winxp

[bryan hepworth]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim" <lawrence.jim at gmail.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora and winxp


> 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.
>>
>> --
>> HaJo Schatz <hajo at hajo.net>
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>>
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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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Try using a harddrive zero fill utility. I saw a similar thing at work with 
FC3 when I had to temporarily take my test server down and reload XP onto 
it.

If you're stuck finding one let me know and I'll email mine across to you.