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sufslnd
October 11th, 2008, 12:35 AM
The XP install hangs after intial loading of drivers. Gives me a black screen and a bliking cursor.

I have tried each of the memory modules and without HDD, still hangs at the same place.

This is very funny because I have installed XP over ubuntu before on this computer. And ubuntu over XP at least five times on the same computer.

Anyone? This is bugging the crap out of me, because although I use Ubuntu on a 24/7 basis, I need XP to play my games.

Pumalite
October 11th, 2008, 12:36 AM
http://apcmag.com/5459/dualboot_ubuntu_and_windows_xp

sufslnd
October 11th, 2008, 12:50 AM
Well, I've done that. But the windows install hangs and gives me a black screen just before the xp partitioner loads.

Pumalite
October 11th, 2008, 12:54 AM
Well, you probably made a mistake somewhere. Get Super Grub and see if you can boot Windows:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/supergrubdiskpage.html
Also post:
sudo fdisk -lu

sufslnd
October 11th, 2008, 01:03 AM
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x42d542d5

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 81915435 476230859 197157712+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 476230860 488392064 6080602+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 * 63 81915434 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 476230923 488392064 6080571 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

sufslnd
October 11th, 2008, 01:05 AM
I have tried without the HDD pluged into the SATA connector, and it still hangs without giving me an error message. This leads me to think it is not HDD related, but I could be wrong.

caljohnsmith
October 11th, 2008, 02:33 AM
It sounds most likely that you have a Windows problem and not a Grub problem, but we should at least check your Grub menu entry for Windows just to make sure; please post the Windows entry from:

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
Do you have your Windows XP Install CD? I would boot that up, go to the recovery console, and begin with the following commands:


fixboot
chkdsk /r
Probably it will take more to fix your Windows, but we need to make sure you don't first have some really basic problem, which is the reason for the above commands. So give that a shot, let me know if it changes anything, and we can go from there.

sufslnd
October 11th, 2008, 03:17 AM
Well, problem is: I CANT install windows. When I insert the XP install CD crashes during the intial loading, before I get to the XP partitioner that is. I have tried my original XP CD and my nLite stripped one.. :/

Pumalite
October 11th, 2008, 03:31 AM
Try shrinking Ubuntu with Gparted Live CD and formatting the new space ntfs
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779
Burn the iso to disk and boot from it.

sufslnd
October 11th, 2008, 03:56 AM
Try shrinking Ubuntu with Gparted Live CD and formatting the new space ntfs
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779
Burn the iso to disk and boot from it.

Already done.

sufslnd
October 11th, 2008, 05:20 PM
UPDATE: My bios reports that it does not know the version of my prosessor, which perhaps could be because I took out and reinserted my BIOS battery a week ago (remove old forgotten password from BIOS). That should not have anything to do with it?

Anyone? I really need help on this one.