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Mantosh Kumar Joined: Apr 23, 2008 Posts: 3 Location:Mumbai, India Other Topics	Posted Jan 20, 2009 at 2:52:53 AM Subject: How to reinstall windows xp in dual boot ??? Hello folks.. I have installed windows xp and fedora 8 on my system. But duo to some problem i want to format windows xp partition keeping fedora as it is. Once i tried sometime back but it was not detecting xp bootable cd. So plz tell me the steps which i need to follow at start of the installation. After that i have idea about how to install xp ?? Thanks & Regard Mantosh Kumar Some goals are so worthy,it's glorious even to think....
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Joined Jul 26, 2008 Posts: 703 Location: Other Topics	Posted: Jan 20, 2009 5:58:45 PM Subject: How to reinstall windows xp in dual boot ??? Depends if your box uses sata hardrives or ide hardrives. Xp by itself has no sata drivers to boot up cd. I don't think XP supports Sata drives till SP2 or SP3. If you have ide hardrives just select cdrom boot first in bios boot order. Hard to answer Windows questions in a Linux forum. Not a lot of Windows users here. If you notice during a Windows install, There is a option at the very beginning about pressing F6 to install raid drivers at the bottom of the window. That is where you install a sata driver to boot up XP on a Sata drive computer. Hope that is what you wanted.
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