----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim" <lawrence.jim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@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.
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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.
