Ok. So I need to get windows XP on this laptop. It previously had windows, then I installed fedora core on it. That was fine, but in order to make use of the laptop with school it will be easier for ...

Are you a dual-booter running a Linux-Windows or even a Linux-Linux dual-boot system? Have you ever lost booting access to one of your OSes or want to be prepared for if and when that happens? If yes, ...

It's probably Windows setting your UEFI (aka what used to be called BIOS) to boot from the Windows bootloader partition instead of Grub. It's probably still there if you set the right partition in the ...

Sure! Your symptoms are telling me that Windows still thinks or see's the setup media whether it's a partition or USB drive. If you used the Windows Media Tool to ...