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WIN7 64bit cannot find system drive
I have a new (replacement for a failed drive) Hitachi 500GB HDD that I'm trying to install win7 64 bit on (full install disk). I have Win XP 32 on drive D: of another drive and want to dual boot. I used PMagic to partition the new drive into 2 250 GB partitions, the first as C: drive, active and primary---formatted NTFS. Thinking I would install on that partition. When I run install on Win7 64 I get to the window where you can select upgrade or custom and I select custom install and select the c: drive. I then get a cannot find a system drive error message. I went bak and removed the partitions thinking maybe it would work on unallocated drive space---same error message. I deleted the partition inside win7 from the same screen and formated it there too and still get the same message. Diagnostics show that the drive is good. What am I doing wrong? Thanks BK