How can I install XP after failing to install Fedora

helphelp · 12-28-2005, 11:43 AM

Hi,

I have tried to install Fedora and came some error message regarding videor can and failed. Now I am trying to install windows XP on this system and it is prompting to install windows XP. After I entered, it doesn't do anything. Any help?

thanks

BinJajer · 12-28-2005, 12:38 PM

OK, type slowly, because hell if I try, I am not able to figure out what happened. Please, post again.

masand · 12-28-2005, 12:39 PM

please re-frame your question and post your problem in more detail

regards

helphelp · 12-29-2005, 01:04 AM

Sorry about it. I wanted to install XP on my PC, but I tried to install fedora and wasn't successful.

When I try to boot from XP cd, it is not booting from XP CD.

Is anything I can do?

masand · 12-29-2005, 01:27 AM

if it is not booting from XP CD

there is nothing to do with fedora or linux

you need to check your CD or your BIOS settings whihc might not be having your CD-drive as your first boot device

regards

BinJajer · 12-29-2005, 06:18 AM

Hmm, I had a similar problem once. My friend was installing inux and asked me why does'nt it boot from the cd. It turned out, that the default boot.ini contains a script which checks if there is a windows cd in drive and runs it without the need for meddling with BIOS.

MasterC · 12-29-2005, 11:10 AM

Moving to General where Windows questions go

I also helped your title out a bit.

Thanks!

saikee · 12-29-2005, 11:34 AM

BinJajer,

Not intending to pick on you but your description cannot be correct as XP can dual boot anther M$ system. Refuse to boot but run the existing system means XP cannot dual boot!!! This can have a serious implication for M$ products.

I beieve the original question is misleading as it implies XP was to be installed inside Fedora. This is clearly impossible.

I second masand's suggestion because booting to a CD drive is a god-given right for a PC user and it is always arranged by the Bios in the booting queue. The CD drive will always boot if it has been selected as the first booting device or the XP CD isn't a proper copy.

sundialsvcs · 12-30-2005, 10:09 AM

No, XP certainly can dual-boot. There are a lot of obnoxious attempts at copy protection, at least in the retail versions, but basically it all still works.

What I think happened here is that there was not a plan for doing this conversion: a fallback position in case things did not go well, and probably a much-too-draconian "either/or" strategy altogether. As a result, both the Linux and the Windows-XP installations were completely toasted. And the person attempting to do the project does not know why.

Nonetheless, here we are. I will say that, most likely, whatever is keeping the XP CD from booting is also what has been interfering with the Fedora install.

To start with, go down to a store and purchase a current XP installation packet. Forget the "OEM" stuff that computer resellers normally use. Pay full retail (sorry).

Now, decide what is your plan. Are you going to "dump Linux" or are you going to buy and install a second disk-drive so that you can do both? Naturally I'd like to see you do the latter. Concentrate first on getting XP reinstalled, from the new media, since that's what you know best right now. Then you can switch the BIOS settings to completely ignore the XP drive and instal Linux on the new drive.

saikee · 12-30-2005, 10:54 AM

sundialsvcs,

With all due respect I cannot accept that one must buy a more expensive no-oem copy of XP just to install it with a Linux.

M$ systems do not tell us much about their systems but this changes completely when we are in Linux. As a result we can do things that can never be dreamt off in a M$ environment.

I have 4 PC with 4 OEM licenses of XP and have "NEVER" experienced problems of installing Linux "before" or "after" the XP.

This thread show not only you have no problem to install XP with a Linux, it also show that you can

add 3 Dos,
two more Windows,
4 Fedora of C2, C3, C4 and C5
together with over 100 systems in the same box.

Can you accept the above as the justification of not having to buy a non-oem copy of XP just to have it co-exist with one Linux?

On necessity of buying a second disk and altering to Bios to boot just two systems you will notice that my 3rd hard disk, with XP in 1st partition, also has 7 Linux and one BSD inside. My first disk hda has 60 partitions populated with 56 operating systems.

Even if you think I am in the minority you have to agree that there is no technical ground to buy one hard disk for every operating system.