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tried adding XP as a dual boot--disabled my PC
Running Win7 on a Gigabyte SLI dual video card mobo (only one installed, can't remember the name of the board), 6G ram, I7, 64bit.
Tried to add XP as a dual boot option on a partitioned 100G H: drive. Upon initial installation of XP, everything goes fine, it installs all the files it needs, then says it's gonna reboot in 15 secs. After that it goes wrong. PC boots back up to the black screen saying "booting from CD, hit any key to boot from CD." It should be going stright to the 30 minute install screens of XP, but all it does it stick to this endless loop. If you hit any button to boot to CD, all it does is start the same process over, asking you what partition you want, etc.
Besides that, now it will not boot to Win7, so my PC is trashed at this point. The only way I know to fix it is to format the whole HDD and start over. I wonder if this is something to do with my mobo...
I'm hoping someone knows what magic button to push to make this work, which I really doubt, but if I have to start from scratch, will I have better luck installing XP first, then adding Win7 as the 2nd option?
The only way for me to check answers on this now is to drive to a wifi spot in town and use my laptop, so hopefully I have given you all the info you need to answer this.