Hello to you all, wise computer experts, I recently aquired a desktop system, see below AMD Athlon XP2200 CPU MSI Micro ATX M/B 256MB DDR PC-266 RAM (expandable to 2GB) 40GB Seagate HDD DVD ROM 1.44MB FDD LAN ProSavage8 2D/3D Graphics on board On Board Sound 6 X USB 2.0 Keyboard P/S2 Mouse Mandrake Linux 9.1 O/S Retail packaging with user manual & quick set-up poster Full Plug & Play BIOS The system comes with Linux, unfortunately I don't know how to use this system and I need to install XP. Could somebody tell me [bold]in details[/bold] how I can do that. I am really novice in the computer area. I have a CD for xp but no floppy. Thanks in advance to you all Much respect babar
You should be able to just boot the Windows XP CD and install it. You might have to change boot order in your bios to allow the cd to boot. If you can't get the cd to boot you can download the boot disks from Microsoft: For XP Pro: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=33291 For XP Home: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=33290 Alternatively you can boot with a Windows 98 startup disk and load the cd drivers and then run winnt.exe in the I386 directory of the XP CD.
Hi there Another quick question, do I need to remove Linux b4 installing Windaz, if yes, can I just erase Linux files or do I have to wipe out the all hard disk, and how do I do all that??!! Merci Babar
Hi all Installation of windows went ok, but window's setup has formatted the C:drive,and now it's called E: when I try to install my broadband modem, the wizard tells me he can't find the C: drive. How can I rename the different drives (hard disk, floppy and DVD rom)?!! Thanks in advance babar
You probably should have wiped out the linux install first and repartitioned your hard drive. Sorry I didn't get a reply to you sooner. Linux usually partitions your hard drive into several partitions and you need to use fdisk to delete the non dos partitions first then repartition the hard drive. I imagine that XP saw the other partitions with data in them and installed itself on another partition, thats why it is showing up as E: Another problem you sometimes run into taking linux off is that the lilo bootloader doesn't get erased even with a repartitions. You have to use an undocumented command fdisk /mbr to reset the master boot record of the hard drive. http://www.compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/fdisk_scr.html Has some info on fdisk and the screens you will see. Of course that would mean reinstalling XP again which you would probably want to do since a lot of setting would be pointing to your E: drive even if you got the drive letters changed.
You really should reinstall xp, aside from the problems you described above and the possible loss of disk space, you cannot change your system drive letter, so with your current installation you're stuck with E:\. Its usually easier anyways to just reinstall xp when problems arrise.
Many respects to you who replied to my sos... Gonna try what u guys said, and as Ceasar said:'allea jacta est' which basically neans : hope it gonna fu....g work! Babar
Hi all, managed to fix the hard disk using magic partition, it's a nice piece of software!! Thanks to you all who responded. Respect babar
