Make sure you are actually booting to the cd and not your hard drive. You might need to change the boot order in the bios to put the cd drive first. You would then have to reformat the drive first to install Windows. Linux has a diff file structure. Here are MS directions.
Thanks for the response. I am indeed booting from the CD. But after the message "Setu is inspecting your hardware"..i get into a blank screen.
I am guessing of two possibility here.One my MBR has got corrupted or 2nd My Windows XP cd which i purchased from Microsoft online does not have Sata drivers for Dell Inspiron 1545.
But not having Sata drivers in the CD should display me a message saying "Hard disk not found" or something.
I am a bit in a fix at the moment. I had received the Dell Laptop with DOS where XP was then installed by the local shop vendor.
The link you provided does give me some useful tips. But i am still not being able to remove Suse Linux from the Laptop.
Mary G
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August 15th, 2009 18:00
Make sure you are actually booting to the cd and not your hard drive. You might need to change the boot order in the bios to put the cd drive first. You would then have to reformat the drive first to install Windows. Linux has a diff file structure. Here are MS directions.
Niel_M
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August 17th, 2009 09:00
hi,
Thanks for the response. I am indeed booting from the CD. But after the message "Setu is inspecting your hardware"..i get into a blank screen.
I am guessing of two possibility here.One my MBR has got corrupted or 2nd My Windows XP cd which i purchased from Microsoft online does not have Sata drivers for Dell Inspiron 1545.
But not having Sata drivers in the CD should display me a message saying "Hard disk not found" or something.
I am a bit in a fix at the moment. I had received the Dell Laptop with DOS where XP was then installed by the local shop vendor.
The link you provided does give me some useful tips. But i am still not being able to remove Suse Linux from the Laptop.
thanks and regards,
Niel
Niel_M
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August 17th, 2009 10:00
Hi,
Forgot to mention the partions on my hard-disk. I did a fdisk -l from the genome terminal
Here is the output below.
/dev/sda1 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 2551 30400 223705125 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 30401 30401 8032+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 2551 15298 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 15299 30400 121306783+ 83 Linux
regards,
Niel