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Post January 7th, 2005, 5:19 pm

hi, i want to switch my os it windows XP, i have the CD and all, but i cant installit on my current linux system, i tried rebooting and running from the CD but nothing happens, i am running on Linux RedHat 7.1, please help me

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Post January 7th, 2005, 5:19 pm

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Post January 7th, 2005, 6:29 pm

You've set the "boot first" or whatever it is called to boot from cd first, right? Then, I guess you tried to boot from the cd and came to no avail. Try doing that again and choose to install it using the recovery console, then I believe you type in:
" format c: /fs:ntfs " without the quotes, and replace the c with the drive letter that you are installing windows from. After that I believe you should reboot and just install windows as you normally would.
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Post January 8th, 2005, 1:21 pm

i realy dont understand what you are saying :-(
i dont havce a c: drive on my system , because everything was cleared out when i installed it
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Post January 8th, 2005, 3:34 pm

try this command: fdisk/mbr and after that reboot and install from CD. It should work ;-)
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Post January 8th, 2005, 4:41 pm

this is the error i get:

unable to load /mbr
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Post January 8th, 2005, 4:58 pm

If you get an error try to repair or remove it. Have U tried my command? Make bootable windows disckettes(I don't know how I should write it down) boot from it and try again. It might help, but if not tell us about it :)
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Post January 8th, 2005, 6:28 pm

doesnt work :-( this is what i had tried: fdisk /mbr
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Post January 8th, 2005, 10:18 pm

Isn't there an option where you can delete all partitions and create new ones during booting up from cd? I always used it.
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Post January 9th, 2005, 7:35 am

fdisk /mbr is for the Windows version of fdisk - it makes no sense to your Linux version. :wink:

Anyway, what do you mean 'nothing happens'? Is the computer booting from the Windows CD, or is it just going straight into Linux?
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Post January 9th, 2005, 7:40 am

[quote="Maedhros"]fdisk /mbr is for the Windows version of fdisk[/qoute] I said that he should make windows boot disc before ;-)
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Post January 9th, 2005, 10:55 am

Dude. Your very confusing. Repeat your problem.
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Post January 9th, 2005, 6:35 pm

ok, here goes:

i have a laptop, which used to have windows ME installed on it, i ater installed linux to test it out, i now want to switch back to windows, i cant do that, i have tried rebooting and trying to run from the CD but i just get a blank screen when i reboot it, when i firsted installed linux, it removed EVERYTHING. so what sould i do now, and i cant make boot disks 'cause i dont have a floppy drive, well i do but its messed up. what should i do?
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Post January 12th, 2005, 12:18 pm

someone please help
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Post January 12th, 2005, 4:07 pm

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and i cant make boot disks 'cause i dont have a floppy drive, well i do but its messed up. what should i do?


make a bootable cd
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Post January 14th, 2005, 5:39 pm

dont have a CD burner either
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