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Help folks, i have dual booted xp and fedrora but after a few weeks i have used wine in doing this when i restarted my system the duak boot option for xp is coming but what happened is that when i enter xp i am restarted again..........
also i went for reinstallling but the thing it said was "setup is inspecting your system..." and xp cd hangs help is urgent plzzzzzz..
hey i said that when installing xp i am having a screen saying "setup inspecting.............." and xp hangs what to do????????/
also i how to reformat the disk as u said help urgent........
Using capitals at the beginning of a new sentence as well as the use of punctuation marks will make your post(s) easier to read/understand. I'm battling to understand your first post.
If XP hangs, this is more a question for a Windows forum or the general section on LQ.
I suggest that you use a Live CD and wipe the partitions using e.g. fdisk or cfdisk. You don't have to format them, Windows will do that during install once it is going.
If it did not solve the issue:
Please provide details about the hardware
What was the first OS that was ever succesfully installed on the system
Using capitals at the beginning of a new sentence as well as the use of punctuation marks will make your post(s) easier to read/understand. I'm battling to understand your first post.
If XP hangs, this is more a question for a Windows forum or the general section on LQ.
I suggest that you use a Live CD and wipe the partitions using e.g. fdisk or cfdisk. You don't have to format them, Windows will do that during install once it is going.
If it did not solve the issue:
Please provide details about the hardware
What was the first OS that was ever succesfully installed on the system
Can you install Linux?
Well i know how to instll linux and i have several times installed xp and this is the first time i installed fedrora linux and also my motherboard is intel965 and plz telll me how to use fdisk command on livecd what it does sorry for the trouble i am beginner in linux
Depending on which live distro you use, open 'terminal' or it might be called 'konsole'. You will need to do this as root and some of the live distros you can sign in as root and the rest you type 'su' or 'sudo' in the terminal (without the quote marks) and it will ask for a password which the distro will tell you on the sign in screen. If you have the right live cd most of them come with a GUI type partitioner called gparted or qtparted. You can type either of those names and the program should open if it is on your distro. If not cfdisk and fdisk is on all that I have ever used but it is not GUI.
The question was not if you know how to install, but if you can (maybe it also does not work).
fdisk -l (lowercase L) will show you the (hard)disks in your system (marked in red).
Code:
wim@desktop1:~$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3264 26218048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3265 26892 189791910 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3265 7180 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7181 10444 26218048+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 10445 13708 26218048+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 13709 13838 1044193+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 13839 26892 104856223+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 32 MB, 32112640 bytes
2 heads, 32 sectors/track, 980 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 980 31328 4 FAT16 <32M
wim@desktop1:~$
In the example you'll see two disks (the second one is a memory stick, so you can ignore it).
The disks will either be /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc or /dev/hda, /dev/hdb etc
Next you can run fdisk /dev/sda (replace sda by what applies to your system)
Code:
wim@desktop1:~$ fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30515.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help):
p will print the partition table, d will ask for a partition number to delete and w will save the changes.
As can be seen from the fdisk -l command above, there are partitions 1,2,5,6,7,8,9. Delete the partition numbers that you have found.
The question was not if you know how to install, but if you can (maybe it also does not work).
fdisk -l (lowercase L) will show you the (hard)disks in your system (marked in red).
Code:
wim@desktop1:~$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3264 26218048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3265 26892 189791910 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3265 7180 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7181 10444 26218048+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 10445 13708 26218048+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 13709 13838 1044193+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 13839 26892 104856223+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 32 MB, 32112640 bytes
2 heads, 32 sectors/track, 980 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 980 31328 4 FAT16 <32M
wim@desktop1:~$
In the example you'll see two disks (the second one is a memory stick, so you can ignore it).
The disks will either be /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc or /dev/hda, /dev/hdb etc
Next you can run fdisk /dev/sda (replace sda by what applies to your system)
Code:
wim@desktop1:~$ fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30515.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help):
p will print the partition table, d will ask for a partition number to delete and w will save the changes.
As can be seen from the fdisk -l command above, there are partitions 1,2,5,6,7,8,9. Delete the partition numbers that you have found.
AS you said to type fdisk -1 but it say command not found
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