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I have oem Xp pro sp2 cd, im running W7, want to install XP to a seperate partition I have installed it thru boot cd sequence(i tried running XP from inside w7, but the menu had install Windows XP greyed out:confused:), but now have no boot screen How can i install xp pro with dual boot...

Hi, I had everything running great in win 7 rc, then I decided to add in a new HD and win 7 would not boot. So I put everything back the way it was, and win 7 still won't boot. I have 2 500GB SATA Intel Matrix RAID set I created when I first installed win 7. The RAID set comprises 2...

Alright I installed windows 7 beta a few days after the beta came out and i had a problem with my c drive that had Windows XP on which i just desided to install a new hard drive and put XP back on it well i forgot to plug my 2 second hard drive in that had Windows 7 beta on it (the reason why it...

I have a SATA Raid setup that I don't want to mess with. I added a seperate IDE hard drive that I am going to install Windows 7 on. I tried to install Windows with the IDE set up as a slave. This did not work. I then disconnected the SATA setup and set the IDE jumpers to master. The install is...

Okay so I currently use Vista HP x64 and want to install both Windows 7 RC versions (x86 and x64) on a seperate hard disk to compare some compatability things that my Vista x64 box can't do as it is 64-bit. The programs in question are the old Worldgroup/MajorBBS (and assorted games that i have)...

When I wake up my computer from hibernation at some point during the boot sequence there is a black screen with three bands of pixelated colors. The computer works fine after it gets going, but there is this glitch. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Thanks

I've ahd Windows XP installed for a long time but I wanted to give a try to Windows 7 so I did. I really like it so I decided to completely remove my XP beacause I wasn't using it anymore. I used Gparted to delete my XP partition and move/enlarge my Windows 7 one. Everything went fine this...

Recently I've been running the 7beta and last night decided to switch back to vista for more functionality. I changed my boot order to CD/DVD first, HDD second, created a new RAID 0 array and then booted. Everytime it came to install the os I just got a strange clicking noise along with the...

I have XP on one drive and 7 on the other. To change the drive I boot to I go into the Bios/Setup and move the XP or 7 drive up to the top of the boot list. Is there anyway I can get it to stop on boot up so I can pick my drive? Something like when you have two OS’s on one drive, each on...

Hi ... What to do if you installed XP and W7 on one hard drive with each OS having its own partition afterwards found W7 not to your liken and decided to remove the OS by formatting that partition , how do you get XP to load up normanly again ? Because after formatting that partition were W7 was...

Hi, I have a computer with two physical sata drives on one of which is a 32 bit version of XP. I had Vista on the second untill this past weekend when I pulled it to install the new Windows 7 beta 64 bits. Before installing I used Partition Magic to re-partition and format. All went well with...

Hi, i've got xp and win7 on dual boot on 2 partitions on 1 hd and now want to add vista 64bit to play about with, would the boot sequence be screwed up as vista probably wouldn't recognise win7 with it being newer than vista. or would installing it on a seperate hd completely be a better idea...

Days ago, restarting after Windows Updates, the system went to black screen with the error message "boot disk failure...".After several steps for troubleshooting checks in the motherboard BIOS, by luck discovered that the system will boot it up normally, if the Windows Setup DVD is in the DVD...

I have new HP desktop that came with Vista Premium preinstalled. I do not have a vista instalation disk because Hp does not give them out but insteaad allows you to reinstal from a partitioned space on C drive where HP have supposingly copied the Vista operating system disk files. How the hell...

I have a ASUS Striker extreme mobo with an intel 2.4GH quad core processor(6600 i think). I also have a nvidia gforce 8800GTX pci-e card and a 74GB(clean) SATA hard drive installed. I have 2GB of DDR2 800MH(which is compatible with mobo) RAM installed as well. also, 700WATT PSU. I have a cdrom...