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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.
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.
2 If you insert a Fedora cd, it boots and lets you access the installer
yes, it does
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4. The XP cd still is working fine on other computers
yes, it does work fine on other computers.
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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.
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