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I guess that is a good sign that Windows 7 is on the flash stick.
Tapping the F8 key gets me to where I can boot. I did not know that was known as the "one-time bios boot menu". I have not done that with the flash stick installed. I assume the flash stick must be installed. I also have the option of using the TAB key which takes me to a menu (same menu as tapping F8) that allows me to select boot source
I feel that I must resolve the bootability issue.
I'll not load Windows 7 by running from the OS unless there is no other way.
If I can read and write from my CDROM, can I assume that the CDROM is not the issue here?
The problem began when I first installed Windows 7. This attempt ended after the first restart. The process should have come back to either finish "Copying Files" or go to "Expanding Files" but did not. I really do not know what it was doing.
What was interesting is that it was W7 related (based on the screens) which did change from time to time. I left it there for about 6 hours. At times I even thought I was getting somewhere BUT finally gave up.
This is why I was considering doing a dual boot. I could get back into Windows XP without needing to rebuild XP if not successful at the W7 install.
Last edited by dustywoodworker; 19 Aug 2011 at 09:25.