Comments on: Win XP Install after Linux

By: John Serge

John Serge — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:31:20 +0000

I had same problem.. I used Windows XP and the system froze after “inspecting hardware”.. I removed windows xp and inserted an old windows 98 CD.. Booted off the 98 CD and deleted the partition. After reboot, reinserted windows xp CD and it worked perfect !

By: ManuFrancisMathew

ManuFrancisMathew — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:24:13 +0000

I purchased a Aspire 4730 Z laptop with Linpus linux.
But my relatives want me also to install Windows for them to chat easily with me on Google etc and my wife also needs to work on Windows.
Last year or so I had purchased a Windows XP from Microsoft site and got it safe. but never succeeded in installing it (I was using AMD) last year.
So I want to make my laptop dual boot with Slackware already installed with LILO and trying hard to add Windows XP. I tried with partition types Win959(LBA) NTFS Volumeset, HPFS/NTFS etc but always I got a message like STOP 0x……..(0x……..,0x……..,0x……..,0x……..) please run checkdisk etc. I never succeeded in using the WindowsXP that I purchased. I hope you may be able to point out some step I may be missing here.I will add more details in my next blog, if I am unable to install WindowsXP by Saturday. I hope if you know a basic step I may have been missing, you can point that out to me.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:42:06 +0000

Matt, I seriously doubt you get better audio editing capabilities on linux….don’t get me wrong, I love it for simple stuff and it’s starting to look cool (just playing with FC10 now), but it still hasn’t the driver support for a DAW or for gaming, not that I would suggest mixing the two!

By: matt

matt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:21:02 +0000

@Frederick linux is better for us who do productive things like webdesigh and audio editing and it is infanaly cheaper than windows or osx for that (xp = 89$right now and dreamweaver is over 1000$… FC9 is free, bluefish or quatana is free)
only drawback is some stuff like flash or silverlight can be kinda a pain(if you have no CLUE how to use google and find info for your self) and some games cant be played on WINE.

By: Alexander Mamchenkov

Alexander Mamchenkov — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:54:09 +0000

Personally I use linux on my laptop due to many reasons like:

1. I have much better command line capabilities

2. I use Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP which is much easier to set up on Linux and which works much better on it

3. I have much better GUI than in Windows (multiple desktops, full customization, visual effects, etc)

4. All the games I play are working on Linux fine (though I rarely play anyway)

5. Most of the stuff I need is already included in installation so I don’t need to go somewhere to find what I need, then download, install and configure it. It just works out of the box

6. I have better software package management. I don’t need to go and download something manually whenever I need something, just run yum install whatever and I get on my laptop installed with all dependencies satisfied and everything working.

So from my point of view, I don’t see any point of having Windows XP if you have Linux ;)

By: Frederick

Frederick — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:32:23 +0000

If you have Windows XP, why do you use linux?
Basically I dont see any advantages to using linux over windows xp, IM dual booting windows
and ubuntu. Ubuntu is nice and all but I dont see anything that would make me prefer it
over windows.The only thing i have been using ubuntu for is web browsing playing
music/movies (cant play games) which I can do better/hassle free in windows.
So what are the advantages of l using linux over xp?

By: Alexander Mamchenkov

Alexander Mamchenkov — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:29:17 +0000

The point is not about removing, creating or doing something else with partitions, the points is why this happens :)

I mean that would be ok if windows would just go into pre-install process and tell something like “Sorry, all your disk is occupied with some partitions I do not know/want to working with, so please be so kind to remove them with whatever method you prefer and then come back for the installation”

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:41:28 +0000

I think you are all missing something obvious!
1. create a ntfs partition
2. remove you linux partition using cfdisk
3. install windows xp
4. re-create you linux partition using cfdisk
5. voila, all your linux stuff is intact!

By: pierluigi

pierluigi — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:31:36 +0000

the solution, without deleting partitions: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=1692397#post1692397

it works :D

By: Pierluigi

Pierluigi — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:02:40 +0000

:( same problem here too…

I Have to backup gigs of file, delete partitions and then reinstall

I hate Windows :(