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JamboUK · 23-09-2005, 19:27

Hi people,

Made a grave error whilst tinkering and dual booting with different Linux Distro. Gone and plonked Fedora FC4 on what was my XP hard drive (and I assume getting rid of the partitions - duh!). Plus side is FC4 works fine.... downside is.... not on the drive I want it on.

I have to face the facts I now have a hard slog of putting XP Pro back on. Problem is when put the Windows XP install disk in to sort the hard drive out it boots and goes off to detect hardware configuration/setup and then blank screen... nothing.....

What do I have to do to this drive to get things back to normal? Any tips?

23-09-2005, 19:27	#1
JamboUK Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Services: Sky+, 10MB NTL Broadband Posts: 177	Sorting Partition/Formatting To Get XP Back After Linux Error Hi people, Made a grave error whilst tinkering and dual booting with different Linux Distro. Gone and plonked Fedora FC4 on what was my XP hard drive (and I assume getting rid of the partitions - duh!). Plus side is FC4 works fine.... downside is.... not on the drive I want it on. I have to face the facts I now have a hard slog of putting XP Pro back on. Problem is when put the Windows XP install disk in to sort the hard drive out it boots and goes off to detect hardware configuration/setup and then blank screen... nothing..... What do I have to do to this drive to get things back to normal? Any tips?