hey guys this the last time u will here from me till i get a laptop, i was wondering if anyone could help me get windows back on my computer from fedora i have been working on it for days and not even virtual box is helping and i need to know how to put either windows xp or xp sp2, or 3 someone please help me!

not really the right place (or forum, so I'm moving it to Operation Systems Specific -> Windows)

could you be a bit more specific, what exactly happens (or not), in either method (to disk or VBox) you boot from the cd and the install program should run

well i have given up on virtual box i have a cd that i can select menu options from linux itself but i dont have a keyboard i can use to get to the boot menu, so i need to know how to install windows from the GUI linux and reformat all partitions and put windows on here directly
i went to the terminal and "sudo fdisk /dev/sda & sda1" and it deletes the only partitiion but when i go to windows install straight from there i get this when i hit install windows "no valid partitions found. setup is unable to continue"

I don't think you can install Windows "from the GUI linux" you need to install Window by booting from the Windows cd

i already did that, it said on a different web site to delete partitions and reboot into windows but that didnt work for some reason and i tried booting from the cd in the boot menu is there anything that i can try?

do you have your bios set to boot from cd?
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ya it is set up to boot from cd, is there a way i can install it from a flash drive

the cd does not get booted from? don't you need to hit enter or something when it sees the cd, else it just continues booting from hd

Google'ing says you can install windows xp flash drive but never tried, you should find a more appropriate forum for this kind of thing

the very first time it did boot from cd but then it gave me the blue screen of death, after that it didnt boot at all it when strait to grub, and it had a prompt but didnt let me type anything

You need to get a new CD from Windows. That one appears to be past its sell by date/scratched.