Linux/Windows problem... Please help?

[beejay s]

My pc's current os is fedora core... I decided to install Windows XP but its not working... I should have installed Windows XP first but its toolate now. Hahaha! I thought of booting with DOS and reformatting the hard disk... then install windows, then linux.. will that work? Any other options? Or how do you uninstall fedora core? im really desperate. I need something done in xp... thanks!

[Bassem]

I was stuck in the same situation, well you can put the fedora bootable disk and don't install a fresh version but repair the last one, and you the installation will repaire the GNU files to let you make ur pc double boot..Good luck

[imsurfing2000]

You have 2 options really.Configuring your grub blootloader to add the option for windows however i think you will need to know exactly where in teh hdd etc etc its installed and its a nightmare.the normal way to dual boot, is to wipe teh machine of both OS's create 2 partitions, Put windows on P1 then install Fedora on P2 using the partition manager to split up P2 into a few more for root swap etc etc.Fedora will reconise windows, but windows is gay and wont reconise fedora.UPDATE:That geezer above me has come up with an idea i didnt really think off, Nice.. give that a shot before mine :)

[Mike]

You need to install the XP boot block, onto the MBR and boot record of the XP partition. You could try the following but it might result in you not being able to run Fedora.Boot of the XP cd and select Microsoft recovery console, if you need to load SATA or RAID / SCSI drivers do so as you first did when you intalled windows by pressing F6 to load 3rd party driver when prompted. Stuff will continue to load until you eventually arrive at a screen that looks like an old DOS screen. It will ask you which installation you want to recover normally C:\windows. Select the installation and then enter your windows administrator password when prompeted. You now have a DOS command prompt.Enter the following 2 commands. fixmbr installs XP MBR boot blockfixboot installs XP partition boot blocknow type exit The pc will reboot and hopefully windows should startup, you will then probably need to reinstall Fedora boot loader, which should detect your XP installation.

[Danno_D_Manno]

You need a good bootloader like grub or lilo.