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Old 10-23-2006   #6 (permalink)
antidrugue
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Sometimes XP will simply not want to install after you installed Linux : you need to fix the "MBR". Normally you would use XP cd to do that. But if that doesn't work for you, use a Live CD and "dd" to fix that.

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to get the XP install CD to work, need to boot into linux with a
linux rescue CD, then DON'T mount the hard drive, then zero out the
MBR like this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

Then reboot with the XP install CD and install XP.
From here :
http://ilab.usc.edu/rjpeters/faq.html#anchor172
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