With today's cheap hard drives, etc., why not make it easy and put the Windows 
stuff on a separate hard drive, and use the motherboard's boot manager to 
select which device to boot from?

At 05:34 PM 3/6/2008, John covici wrote:
>Hi all.  I am trying to install Windows XP on a system which has
>partition 1 as an ntfs empty partition, and other partitions of the
>disk have Linux on them.  When I try to do this, after hitting enter
>to select the partition, I get  a message saying that the disk has no
>XP compatible partition.  I even tried deleteing and creating a
>partition from the windows setup screen and itdid not do any good
>along with messing up the partition table.  Anyone have a clue?
>
>Thanks.
>
>         John Covici
>         [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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