re: Can't get Windows XP to start Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 8:59 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by WHO (56 messages posted) >I fixed this problem using (c)fdisk under Linux. All I had to do was boot from a >Linux CD-ROM, start cfdisk, and change the type of the WinXP file system from 0x17 >(Hidden HPFS/NTFS) to 0x7 (HPFS/NTFS). Great! This fixed my problem to! I booted using the RedHat 7.3 Boot CD and chose to use fdisk. Pressed 't', ,the option to change partition types then 1(XP was my first partition). Then typed in 7 for HPFS/NTPS Written in response to: re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Ed Doolittle: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 9:07 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Can't get Windows XP to start (BPM: Tue, Jul 23, 2002, 4:00 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (bill: Tue, Jul 23, 2002, 4:04 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (xpadvisor: Tue, Jul 23, 2002, 7:11 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (BPM: Fri, Jul 26, 2002, 11:16 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (David Caro: Fri, Oct 4, 2002, 4:42 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (brother: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 10:23 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (enrique: Wed, Oct 9, 2002, 9:38 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (tatzj: Fri, Feb 7, 2003, 6:59 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Frank: Fri, Feb 21, 2003, 1:05 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (sanlihe: Fri, Feb 28, 2003, 5:35 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Maggot: Fri, Feb 28, 2003, 10:04 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Nick: Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 12:10 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (olibear: Sun, Mar 9, 2003, 5:27 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Falcon: Wed, Feb 18, 2004, 8:45 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (mo: Tue, Jun 1, 2004, 10:06 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (george_d: Tue, Jun 15, 2004, 3:41 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (gustavo: Tue, Aug 17, 2004, 9:06 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (dhdag: Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 12:59 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Mike: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 12:44 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Fredrik Kant: Mon, Sep 1, 2003, 1:53 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Robert Neville: Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 6:06 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (elias: Sat, Aug 15, 2009, 2:22 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Carl_Ally: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 5:09 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Ed Doolittle: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 9:07 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (WHO: Sat, Mar 22, 2003, 8:59 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (JoMama: Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 11:17 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Mike Shafer: Tue, May 30, 2006, 12:01 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Mike Gruich: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 10:31 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Sean: Fri, Mar 7, 2003, 7:53 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (praktikal: Sat, Mar 8, 2003, 3:25 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (BigTimMN: Mon, Mar 17, 2003, 11:25 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Bob Brennan: Tue, Mar 18, 2003, 9:30 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Solean: Tue, Mar 18, 2003, 10:06 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Drea: Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 2:59 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (craigSH: Fri, Jul 25, 2003, 4:34 am) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (DHound: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 12:41 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Zeashan: Mon, Dec 15, 2003, 11:04 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (roger: Sat, Jan 10, 2004, 3:45 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Carlos: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 8:25 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Josh Age:12: Sat, Jan 27, 2007, 5:09 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Paulette New: Sun, Jan 28, 2007, 7:21 pm) re: Can't get Windows XP to start (Bill the Cable Guy: Wed, Feb 7, 2007, 4:36 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum