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Windows 7 and Windows xp dual boot problem
Since my laptop is kinda low end, and I wanted to play Starcraft1, I wanted to dual boot it with XP. My laptop came with windows vista and i upgraded to windows 7.
so to start out i made a partition of 50 gigs called "windows xp" from windows 7. then i restarted my pc, and put the disc in and booted up xp installation, selected the partition called "windows xp" and made sure it was 50 gigs, chose quick format, and it started formatting, after that it restarted, and came up to the screen that looks a bit nicer than the once before, but after about 10 seconds my pc powers down.
my craptop gets EXTREMELY hot sometimes, but i have it on a laptop cooling stand and have fan blowing on it and made sure it was cool the entire time it was installing
okay, so next i pop in super grub boot disk to try to see if i can get back into windows 7. i've only used it twice before, and it worked fine, but this time it keeps trying to repair the xp installation instead of the windows 7 installation...
i don't really want to give up installing xp, my pc can barely handle 7 without melting itself (not really, but it gets super hot around where the graphics card is at, even with aero off)
just kinda wondering what i should do to get xp working on it... :/