On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:30:30 +0800, HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx> > http://www.HaJo.Net > > PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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
