On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:37:18PM -0500, Thom Paine wrote: > 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. This blows away more than that since the MBR is only 512 bytes long.-- -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
