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Wow, Greg I did not mean to incur your disdain and displeasure. May I please respond? As I said up front, I bought this Acer laptop through an auction. It was a police seizure and had Vista on it and was password protected. Not knowing the password and not wanting Vista anyway, I took it to Futureshop and due to cost, I could only afford Windows 7 Upgrade Version so they reinstalled Vista and installed the Windows 7 Upgrade. It ran great but some of my games wouldn't launch after installing with errors popping up and sometimes games wouldn't install at all. I found your dual boot thread a loooooooong time ago but it took until just 3 weeks ago when I could afford a copy of Windows XP/SP3 and Windows 7 Home Premium. I have wanted XP on one harddrive and Windows 7 on the other for a very long time and finally I was about to make it happen.
I tried to follow the dual boot instructions but it wasn't working so I asked for help. We all went (and are still going through) an impossibly long thread at the end of which I did a clean install of XP with your and Kaktussoft's instructions and help. And then I did a clean install of Windows 7 with the disk I had of 48 - in - 1 where Windows 7 Home Premium is the only licensed version I can install. From what I understand, numerous versions are on that disk (MSDN types and OEM types and 32 bit types and 64 bit types) but I have only the license for Home Premium (and activated) that version as I understood your and Kaktussoft's instructions including removing the XP harddrive. As it turns out, I had followed to a "T" all the instructions for a clean install of Windows 7 (from the link of Step 8 of Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7) minus the part of Refreshing my WEI score. I also kept the 100 MB partition assuming it important.
Yes, I did read the Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 and thought I understood them. It was like when someone tells you something and you understand it so you don't ask questions because you understand it. There aren't questions in your mind because you get it. You only find out you didn't get it afterall, when someone shows you you are incorrect. As I understood it and thought my understanding was sound, Step 1 is asking for an installer that will install for me my Windows 7. My understanding was that Step 1 depended on having an OEM disk with only 1 version while my disk has many. So I had no questions because I got it. I told you about my 48 - in - 1 because right off the bat, it's a lost cause because Step 1 is a bust (as I saw it).
After your last post I reread Clean Reinstall and saw the link in Step 8l and saw that I had "done it right" even if by fluke. All the instructions thus far for XP and Windows 7 I've done as I've been told or read here in other threads. Now granted I'm having Norton issues and we're working on that but as far as I see I've done it right. I don't really like how you are coming down on me.
I see that this has been a rambling defensive argument but your emoticon and your "did you even read..." phrasing stung. I hope we're good after this.
Last edited by Serenity; 31 Oct 2013 at 03:37. Reason: for easier reading