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Listen to jbennet - he's telling you the right stuff.
First, there's no need to remove Linux off the hard drive. The Windows installer is good at taking up the whole hard drive; that's why it's Windows after all.
Second, Windows often warns that it may freeze up when detecting hardware. To make the installation as easy as possible, disconnect all peripherals from the computer except your keyboard and mouse. You can always add these things later, and then there's way less chance of it freezing up.
jbennet is right again; you may have to wait long periods of time, so be patient.
First, there's no need to remove Linux off the hard drive. The Windows installer is good at taking up the whole hard drive; that's why it's Windows after all.
Second, Windows often warns that it may freeze up when detecting hardware. To make the installation as easy as possible, disconnect all peripherals from the computer except your keyboard and mouse. You can always add these things later, and then there's way less chance of it freezing up.
jbennet is right again; you may have to wait long periods of time, so be patient.
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Originally Posted by joeprogrammer 
Windows often warns that it may freeze up when detecting hardware. To make the installation as easy as possible, disconnect all peripherals from the computer except your keyboard and mouse.
videocard = necessary
usb/lan card = not necessary
isntall these once windows is running
also, if you have SATA tell your bios (if possible) to run in IDE compatibility mode (may be called something else) - this means xp wont need to worry and ask you about driver floppies and pushing fsomething for a "3rd party scsi/raid driver" during install
Last edited by jbennet; Jan 6th, 2007 at 9:16 pm.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
this includes any cards etc... that arent essential for the instaler e.g
videocard = necessary
usb/lan card = not necessary
isntall these once windows is running
also, if you have SATA tell your bios (if possible) to run in IDE compatibility mode (may be called something else) - this means xp wont need to worry and ask you about driver floppies and pushing fsomething for a "3rd party scsi/raid driver" during install
I am an idiot trying delete the only partition which has Linux on it. Any ways today I have decided to wait for a long time once the message about the windows xp cd installer checking the hardware configuration flashes on the screen. I think I now understand that all I need is patience. I am new to Linux and trying desperately to learn something about it, causing more troubles for myself and others. The problem has a lot to do with the fact that Linux is the only os and there is no other partition in place at the moment. Thanks again and will let you know what happens. Bye for now.
all you need to do is this - stop confusing yourself
boot xp cd
leave for however long it takes
when you get to this bit: http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/winx...pairdeep01.gif
delete all partition(s) and make a new one for XP
continue with install
boot xp cd
leave for however long it takes
when you get to this bit: http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/winx...pairdeep01.gif
delete all partition(s) and make a new one for XP
continue with install
Last edited by jbennet; Jan 7th, 2007 at 3:50 pm.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
all you need to do is this - stop confusing yourself
boot xp cd
leave for however long it takes
when you get to this bit: http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/winx...pairdeep01.gif
delete all partition(s) and make a new one for XP
continue with install
Thanks the patience paid off ultimately after almost 4 hrs. Cheers. Appreciated.
yeah, some machines just take a while (in particular ones that have low specs or obscure hardware)
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Originally Posted by tech291083
Hi,
Thanks the patience paid off ultimately after almost 4 hrs. Cheers. Appreciated.
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There another solution to this annoying problem and here it is:
booted up from Fedora Installation DVD and executed this at boot: prompt
The above two commands at the prompt helped me install windows xp without a fuss. I found them somewhere on the net. One more thing in case you have a SATA hard disk, replace hda with sda. This command will *wipe* your Harddisk and Windows Installation CD will work. I appreciate the replies to my query earlier. Cheers.
booted up from Fedora Installation DVD and executed this at boot: prompt
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=521 count=1
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Originally Posted by tech291083
This command will *wipe* your Harddisk and Windows Installation CD will work.
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
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