hello!

Ive recently installed FC3 on my main pc, just to test weather it detects all my hardware. the good news is it does! that bad news is now when i try to re-install windows xp, it goes to detecting hardware and goes no further! What sould i do? Please help!

Scott

Did you save some space for your windows install or did you want to wipe all the drives and start over? Remember, windows doesn't let you do to your computer what you want. It is meant to 'lock up' after a few installs.

I highly recommend downloading this:

http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm

Stick it on a floppy and reboot. The steps are simple to follow. Use it to wipe all of the drive or the partition you want to wipe for your windows install. Do it a few times if you can spare the time (not recommended for 120Gb HDD!). I also recommend wiping all of the small partitions of about 8Mb that windows claims it doesn't use. You will always get these 'leftovers' with NTFS. If you are dual booting, make sure the small partition you wipe isn't the Linux boot sector! When your drive is nicely 'zeroed' out, try your win install again. Works every time.

Hey, yeh i just wiped the whole drive! i have that program, how would i go about making a bootable floppy off it?

btw, i would love to keep linux on my pc, the only problem is the games support, n i love games!

The download of KILLDISK should be a bootable disk. Just slap it on a floppy and stick it in as you boot. Or if your problem is the install disk isn't being read first maybe you haven't changed your BIOS settings? If you want to change the boot order, turn on the PC then quickly hit (often repeatedly) the 'del' key. Change the boot order in here. You will most likely want Floppy then CD/DVDROM then HDD.

Linux plays many games you know! Check out cedega by Trans Gaming and the easy install GUI 'Grapevine'. Most top rating games are supported. Nvidia makes things easier!

Hey! kill disk, can you point me in the right direction, yeh, i would use it for gaming, but theres a nother problem, i have a 9700 pro, it seems that ATI havent got a rpm for this distro yet (fc3) uname -r returns "2.6.10-1.760_FC3".

yeh i have that boot order in the bios, it does boot from the CD but then freezes, i think ive had this problem befor as i remeber with FC3, ill search for kill disk now, see if i can get it sorted out!

Does cedega support dx 9 emulation yet? i can remeber reading some were along hile back that they mite be supporting it soon!

hey evry 1 thanks for your help!

I still cant get it to work, ive been looking around and it seems that if i Fdisk /mbr that will sort it out. But i have a 9700 pro witch requires a flopy power connector to work, and there is only one on my psu! thusly i cannot power up the floppy drive in order to do fdisk.

what i was wondering is has the Fc installer got any means of wiping the Master boot record like fdisk /mbr ?

Help would be much apreciated!

Scott