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Installing Win 7 on old Dell P3
I have an old Dell machine that refuses to boot from either a Win 7 install DVD or a Win 7 System Repair CD. It has no trouble booting from other bootable CDs (not sure about other bootable DVDs). It boots from a Win XP install CD or various Linux boot CDs so the problem doesn't appear to be the drive itself.
The Win 7 install DVD and System Repair CD both work fine on other machines.
Does anyone have any ideas why this machine can't seem to boot Win 7 from DVD or CD?
I got Win 7 installed on the machine by other means (long story) and it boots Win 7 from the hdd fine so it's not that it can't handle Win 7 itself.
It bugs me that I can't boot from these disks!