Windows XP installation problem over Fedora 13?
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Hello, First of all, I'd like to tell you that I had installed Windows 7 (clean) on my new computer. Then, I installed Fedora 13 64-bit. Eventually, I wanted to install Windows XP, so, formatted the drive (NTFS) which had Windows 7. Now, I have Fedora 13 running good. But, now, when I'm trying to install Windows XP I'm getting different errors. At first, it was - "A disk read error has occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart". I took a MS-DOS 6 CD and booted up. Ran chkdsk, but it checked only my CD-Drive. Nothing else. When I tried to run fdisk and looked for existing paritions, it showed me nothing inspite of having 6 partitions on my 1TB HDD. One of it is ext4 (Fedora), swap and others are FAT and NTFS. Now, after running chkdsk, when I tried to install XP, I get an error - Error loading operating system. I googled, and found this - http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000730.htm And I'm pretty sure that my issue is "Cause" (as on the page) #3, that is - Issue with drive's partitions. And it the solution is suggests is - This issue can be cause if the disk drives are not properly setup or have been changed by another program, such as a utility that comes with a Linux distribution. To resolve this issue, delete and recreate all the partitions before running the Windows XP setup. I don't want to delete and recreate all the partitions :( I've well setup-ed Fedora installation. Does anybody know a solution?
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Answer:
You can install the xp bootloader and then edit it to include linux. Here is one link and you can google for xp bootloader +linux and get a lot more.
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Other answers
Well, I am not a compugeek, but I have done this several times (install windows and linux). This is the only way it has worked for me- 1-format hard drive with windows disk. 2-install windows first. 3-install linux as dual boot.
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