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] ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
