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Old March 21st 18, 09:22 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware
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I have used this exact same procedure before to KILL VISTA and reload with
XP. Same installation disc... without any issues...


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On 3/21/2018 2:24 PM, Paul wrote:
news://news.aioe.org wrote:
Please help... I am in need of assistance to install XP after formatting
with Lubuntu Gparted


microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

From Lubuntu:

sudo apt install disktype
disktype /dev/sda | tee out.txt

Then present the contents of "out.txt" text
strings, in your posting to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
for suggestions.

What that does, is scan the disk for information,
and tell us what partitions you might or might not
have created.

Paul


MS Windows sometimes has a very hard time dealing
with unsupported disk formats, which is what I
think is a likely cause of whatever problem he
was having with attempting to install XP.