This would not work for me as I wold then have to go into the BIOS and change things around and I am not even sure I could do this.
on Thursday 03/06/2008 Fred Holmes([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > 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/ ** > ************************************************************************* -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
