Linux back to Windows

[psiblade]

So I put fedora on a pc I built and found it was too much of a pain to relearn everything so I wanted to go back to Windows. I tried booting from the cdrom to load windows back on, but linux would not have any of that. So I took out the drive, formatted it on another machine (wiped clean, ntfs system). Put it back into the machine and after the bios will NOT ask me to boot from cdrom, I either get "GRUB _" or just plain "_" flashing.... How can I get the pc to boot from the CD??? I tried everything in my mobo settings... any ideas?

[washe]

Welcome to Techimo..

Ensure that your first bootable device is the CD ROM so it can start the install.

[CMonster]

Follow Washe's advice -- somewhere along the line you are not seeing a BIOS option, i.e. boot device/boot order, and sometimes the boot order is changed using the +/- keys

Next time you get the urge to learn about alternative computer operating systems try a run-from-CD/DVD version of Linux - you won't have to install anything to the hard disk. Should you find a distribution that you'd like to install you can partition the hard disk and dual boot, choosing either operating system at boot time. I would suggest Ubuntu or Kubuntu as a distribution to start with because it has been simplified and streamlined for people who have spent years on Windows -though my preference has always been Suse -- and the KDE desktop environment.

As for run-from-CD Linux, my personal experience has been that kubuntu run from CD is pitifully slower and more kludgey than Knoppix