Re: [FIXED]: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

2006-04-27 Thread John Abreau
Zhao Peng wrote: Then, I did "fdisk /mbr" when booted from floppy. But after this, the system did show "missing operating system" whenever the machine was restarted. Isn't is true that ""fdisk /mbr" and "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1" are supposed to achieve same purpose? Bot

[FIXED]: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

2006-04-27 Thread Zhao Peng
Hi, It turned out the culprit of my booting problem is nothing but a non-functional Windows XP installer CD, which is suspected by some kind souls here. With a working XP CD, no problem whatsoever in terms of booting into XP installation mode. Before I found out XP CD is what to be blamed,