On 11/15/05, peter wu <pwu95@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for your kind reply, Eddie.
But as I said, I tried to boot from the Windows XP CD. I get the following msg:
"Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuraton..."
Then the computer hangs.
I normally boot from the fedora cd and type linux rescue.
Then I skip upping the network interface, and skip mounting the partitions.
I finally get to a prompt and I type this to clear the drive.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=100
This is for an IDE drive. If you have serial ata, you will likely need to substitute hda for sda.
Basically this blows away the partitioning information, and makes the drive like new. You should then be able to get the windows cd to boot fine.
--
-=/>Thom
