Format Problems, Urgent!!
 

Hello,

Due of some personal reason I have to move back to Windows XP. When putting in the CD and restart the PC, as usual it asks for Press any key to boot from CD..., when pressing any key a black screen comes up and not the Blue screen as supposed and the CD stops spinning.

Doing a format from FC3 to FC3 works fine, doing from FC3 or XP doesn't.

What can I do please? :(

Thanks in advice.

ok i am not sure what you are doing wrong there.... when you are looking to partition is it recognizing the linux partitions?

It does, I doing nothing wrong, I'm doing the same as usual.

then i am not sure....it always worked for me

used to work here, but seems no more.

Any ideas please, I'm desperate. :(

You're not giving us a lot of details to work with, here ;-)

You're saying "A black screen comes up instead of a blue one, and the cd stops spinning".

What does the black screen say? Please post all text, literally. That might give some clues.

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

just a blackscreen nothing on it.

Let's see if I understand correctly:
1 If you insert the Windows XP cd, it boots, but you end up at the black screen
2 If you insert a Fedora cd, it boots and lets you access the installer
3 The XP cd used to work fine
4 The XP cd still is working fine on other computers

Items 2 and 4, you didn't explicitly say (yet), they are assumptions by me. Please confirm them.

Because if you also can't boot from fedora, then your box has a problem booting from CD, and we can investigate that. If the XP cd also fails on other computers, then maybe it is damaged and should be replaced

Assuming none of these is the case, I'm guessing there is something currently on the harddisk that keeps XP from operating correctly. I'd try running the fedora installer, up to the point where you can create partitions. There, I'd delete all partitions and then abort the install. Then try the XP installer again.

Note that deleting all partitions will cause you to loose all data, and the system will no longer be able to boot from the harddisk.

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

yes, it does

yes, it does work fine on other computers.

Done so, still the same

Strange. I have no ideas any more. I recommend having a local guru take a look at it.

Good luck,

Kees-Jan

Did talked with a user from freenode, and he got the same problem as mine, I was wondering it's related to Fedora.