To anyone who can help-
While I was away in Europe, my friend formatted my laptop hard drive and
installed Red Hat Fedora core 4 as my only operating system. I've tried to
reinstall Xp from my installation disk, but when I boot from the disk, the
screen just goes blank and I have to restart my system. I have a Dell
inspiron 5160 with HT technology. I thought it would boot from the BIOS but I
think it has something to do with the linux bootloader or something. I don't
know much about Linux at all to do anything with that. I am looking for some
instructions to follow. Thanks to anyone with the knowledge to tackle this
problem.

-Need XP
Ryan

How to Remove Linux and Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/dÂ*efau...en-us;3144Â*58

How to Remove the Linux LILO Boot Manager
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Microsoft MVP
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"NHdellman" wrote:

| To anyone who can help-
| While I was away in Europe, my friend formatted my laptop hard drive and
| installed Red Hat Fedora core 4 as my only operating system. I've tried to
| reinstall Xp from my installation disk, but when I boot from the disk, the
| screen just goes blank and I have to restart my system. I have a Dell
| inspiron 5160 with HT technology. I thought it would boot from the BIOS but I
| think it has something to do with the linux bootloader or something. I don't
| know much about Linux at all to do anything with that. I am looking for some
| instructions to follow. Thanks to anyone with the knowledge to tackle this
| problem.
|
| -Need XP
| Ryan

NHdellman wrote:
> To anyone who can help-
> While I was away in Europe, my friend formatted my laptop hard drive
> and installed Red Hat Fedora core 4 as my only operating system. I've
> tried to reinstall Xp from my installation disk, but when I boot from
> the disk, the screen just goes blank and I have to restart my system.
> I have a Dell inspiron 5160 with HT technology. I thought it would
> boot from the BIOS but I think it has something to do with the linux
> bootloader or something. I don't know much about Linux at all to do
> anything with that. I am looking for some instructions to follow.
> Thanks to anyone with the knowledge to tackle this problem.
>
> -Need XP
> Ryan

If your laptop had a hidden restore partition and your friend deleted it
when installing Linux then you'll have to contact Dell to purchase a set of
restore CD's. If he didn't delete it then you may be able to boot with a
Linux boot CD and delete the boot loader and Linux partitions. Then you
should be able to do the restore through the BIOS. It is a complicated
procedure. If your friend can't or won't help you then ordering the Dell
CD's is probably the way to go.

Kerry