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Hello everybody I am trying to get this working but can not. I have a laptop with Windows Xp and installed FC5 on a USB HD to dual boot, when it restarted nothing happened it whent straight to windows,so tried to install it again but now all I get is "GRUB Hard Disk Error" can not use Windows nor FC5. My computer does not have a BIOS option to boot from USB. Hard Drives /dev/sda /dev/sda1 ntfs 95394 1 12161 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 ext3 /boot1 102 1 13 /dev/sdb2 ext3 /1 10001 14 1288 /dev/sdb3 swap 4997 1289 1925 this is what I get from fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 12161 97683201 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 14 1288 10241437+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 1289 1995 5116702+ 82 Linux swap / Does anyone knows how to fix it? Thanx in advance for your time.

Thanks danleff, I apreciate your time and knowledge. I do not have a full WinXP copy, all I did get with the laptop was the cd that recovers the original installation (Windows XP Home Edition and a bunch of software I do not use), I did not try using it, what I did (I had Win98 boot CD) used it and did an fdisk/mbr, and WindowsXP is working again. I do not have much experience with Linux, I just know basic commands, I always have used it in the office for basic stuff, actually this is the third time I install it for personal use (on my own equipment). But this is the first time I try to install it on an external disk, the previous times, I installed it on the internal drive of another computer with no problems. Well I will keep trying and doing a little research. Thank you again

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite M45-S2693, yes with Windows XP Home Edition pre installed, the USB Drive had a NTFS partition, but I remember selecting the partition, deleting it (so I guess Fedora formated it right?) and setting a root and a boot partitions only, and I remember I got a warning saying that it was recommended to make a swap partition, but I countinued (this was the first installation). On the second installation I added the swap partition and then I got the error. So there is no way to install Fedora on an external USB drive in this case?