help uninstall Fedora 7
 

hi, i want to uninstall Fedora 7 but when i restart the computer with the windows xp bootable cd.. message says press any key to boot from cd.. ok, then the screen goes blank. i have tried another xp bootable cd with the same results. how do uninsall it as i want to have a duel boot system with xp and fedora. at the moment i can't do anything with it.

what can i do? i can't even format the hard drive and start again?


any help would be appreciated.

XP has a particularly stupid installer. You need to wipe the beginning of the disk so that it will install. The way to do this is to boot any Linux rescue disk and

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=64

This will write zeros to the first 64 blocks on /dev/hda - MAKE SURE THIS IS THE CORRECT DISK! The master boot record (MBR), the partition table, and and additional data from Linux software RAID and/or LVM will be wiped out.

This will make Windows XP's installer happy.

help uninstall Fedora 7
 

thanks for the info could'nt seem to find a linux rescue disk anywhere so ended up making a windows boot disk (using my other pc) and then booting to pc dos.. then used fdisk to delete partitions.. then booted up with the xp installation disk, that seemed to work ok.