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Xp install Problem on a laptop

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Allright I have a laptop where on I have dual boot system, xp pro sp2 and linux fedora core 4, my windows crashed (without any reason, aleast nog that I now of), I can still boot linux but can't boot windows, zo I wanted to reinstall windows put in the cd waited voor the install to come, after a few minutes of installing the installation just keeps hanging on installing devices with still 37minutes 2 go, tried it severall times but same thing each time. I searched a bit for the problem and I found that it could be some sort of conflict with boot sequences on the hd (don't know correct explanation for this, not very good at it :( ). After that I decided to remove linux from the system, for doing so I found that I should boot the laptop with a floppy with fdisk on it to delete the partition's where linux is on, the problem is my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive into it so that also wouldn't work, after more searching I couldn't find an other way to do it, so I booted again with the xp sp2 cd in the drive > selected "boot from cdrom" after that it go's checking the hardware configuration > then it should normaly go to the blue install screen, but it just keeps hanging on a black screen :( Tried it several times but no effect, has anyone a idea? Because I kind of need the laptop for my school :(

edit: bad english sorry for that , because I'm dutch
 
Your english is fine...in fact better than some we've seen who speak it as their primary language. Anyway, assuming you just want to clear the hard drive and start over, you'll need something better than fdisk to do linux partitions. You can download the ultimate boot CD, and use one of it's drive utilities to blank your drive, and let you install XP clean.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
 
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