Comment 51 for bug 59620

Additional issues:
When using Anaconda under Fedora Core 3 (and probably other versions),
not only the above mentioned problems happen, as well as the ones
mentioned in Bug 128049, but WINDOWS XP SETUP FROM THE CD STOPS
WORKING. It becomes impossible to run the setup program to
troubleshoot a windows installation that won't boot. If one tries to
boot from the CD, setup will hang after displaying "Setup is
inspecting your computer' hardware configuration".

After formatting the linux partitions with redhat 9 and reinstalling
FC3 without formatting the disks, all the above mentioned problems
went away. (I haven't checked the parted part, but I imagine it is
fixed as well).

For anyone with a dual boot FC3/XP configuration, I strongly advise
that you install the windows XP recovery console to allow for
additional recovery options in case of trouble. (normally you would
run it from the XP CD, which does not work with FC3 formatted drives)