I always wipe my drives when changing OS. DBAN is your friend :) Joe Heaton
-----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: XP over Fedora I goof around with fedora and we had a dell box running it for awhile with dans guardian and some other stuff. So now we want to put XP back on it, and when it goes to boot from the cd the system just locks up. I tried my BartPE disc and the same thing, if I unplug the hard drive then I can boot but of course cant do anything. I guess I could go make a quick floppy fdisk but wanted to know if anyones seen that. I know the system locks up because as soon as it goes Windows is Inspecting your Computer. . the screen will turn black and if you hit power it goes off immediately (not like holding it down for 5-10sec) so the system is in some weird state. Anyone know a workaround for future reference? Someone said the drive may be locked? but I still fail to see how that would stop Windows from running its startup process off the cd's ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.0/1601 - Release Date: 8/8/2008 9:02 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
