[djchrisjohnston]

I installed Fedora Core 3 on a box just to play around with linux. I am currently in school for my MCSA and i got a copy of xp corp. When i put the windows cd in it just says "Scanning hardware config" then it goes black and does nothing. Now i can't delete Fedora i have googled my problem and found very little help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[macdude425]

OK, well you need the Windows CD to properly get rid of the Fedora partition, so I don't know what to say...do you have another CD?

[TheRecluse]

go to http://bootdisk.com and download a windows 98 bootdisk and install it to a floppy. restart the computer, enter fdisk and delete the non dos partition.

[macdude425]

Bit of a problem there...that won't restore the Windows bootloader, and since you just deleted GRUB, you need something that will restore it.

[TheRecluse]

installing windows will reintstall the bootloader... he needs to get rid of the linux partition for the xp cd to read the hard drive.

[macdude425]

OK, not only did I not read the post properly, I had one huge brain fart there. You are right.

[djchrisjohnston]

great thanks for all your help it worked. I had some of the files, just not the right ones. that's why it didn't work the first time. thanks again for all your help.

[AND_YOU_ARE]

Could you also use the fc4 install cd to reformat the hard drive, then exit out of cd4 install, and begin installing windows? I havent tried it, but it might work.

[TheRecluse]

i don't think you can format to a FAT file system on the fc4 cds. the windows xp cd can't recognize any native linux partitions.. it'll only pick up FAT, NTFS or unformated space