Ahh, probably I normally shut that off cuz in centos we are using drbd so we turn all the disk junk off. Makes sense ..
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP over Fedora Well it would have happened their as well as CentOS defaults to using LVM as well and that is what seems to mess with WinXP... -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP over Fedora Yah I went to bootdisk.com and grabbed a bootdisk and fdisk /mbr, I figured that would work, just usually play with centos and never saw this before. thx -----Original Message----- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 12:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP over Fedora I hadn't seen your reply when I remembered the tool but I used to have a boot floppy and boot cd with the tools on it. On the other hand, DBan should also work because it's a nice self contained CD though it does go a little further then diskpart :) Steven On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Diskpart will be a bit hard to run :) > > It already boots Fedora, why not boot into the OS on it, so you don't have to remove the HD or any other fancy crap etc... > > Just boot the OS in it, run the command I said as root, then restart and boot off WinXP cd. Problem solved. > > jlc > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:07 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: XP over Fedora > > diskpart . you want to nuke the mbr > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415 > > I used to have a floppy I booted to but imagine there are other tools now. > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Steven Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are going to want to nuke the drive. DBan is a little overkill >> but I can't remember what I used to use. Whatever you use needs to >> clear the MBR on the drive. >> >> Also, check the BIOS to make sure it's not one of those fancy high end >> ones that says boot into windows or linux. >> >> Steven >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I always wipe my drives when changing OS. DBAN is your friend :) >>> >>> Joe Heaton >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 8:29 AM >>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>> Subject: XP over Fedora >>> >>> I goof around with fedora and we had a dell box running it for awhile >>> with >>> dans guardian and some other stuff. So now we want to put XP back on it, >>> and >>> when it goes to boot from the cd the system just locks up. I tried my >>> BartPE >>> disc and the same thing, if I unplug the hard drive then I can boot but >>> of >>> course cant do anything. I guess I could go make a quick floppy fdisk >>> but >>> wanted to know if anyones seen that. >>> >>> >>> >>> I know the system locks up because as soon as it goes Windows is >>> Inspecting >>> your Computer. . the screen will turn black and if you hit power it goes >>> off >>> immediately (not like holding it down for 5-10sec) so the system is in >>> some >>> weird state. >>> >>> >>> >>> Anyone know a workaround for future reference? Someone said the drive >>> may be >>> locked? but I still fail to see how that would stop Windows from running >>> its >>> startup process off the cd's >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ >>> >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >>> Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.0/1601 - Release Date: 8/8/2008 >>> 9:02 AM >>> >>> ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ >>> >> >> ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ >> > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
