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Windows Boot Manager Woes...
I just recently installed Windows 7 in what I thought was a clean install and overwrite of a hard drive that previously had XP on it. Come to find out, XP is still on there, and I have the option every time I boot up to select whether I want to boot to XP, or to Windows 7. As this wasn't something I wanted to fool around with every time I booted up the computer, I went into the boot options, and selected 'Windows 7', with a timeout of 0. Nominally, that should have allowed me to boot straight into Windows 7, and not XP, right?
Wrong.
Now when I boot up the computer, it goes straight to a blue screen with 'Windows Setup' in the upper-lefthand corner. It starts to load files down at the bottom, then gives me the error 'The file atapi.sys is corrupted. Press any key to continue.'
Pressing any key tells me that the setup could not be completed, and to press any key to restart my computer.
If I restart the computer, it just goes through the same issue again. Pressing F8 to try and enter safe mode doesn't work, either. Nothing happens at all, and I'm making damn sure to press F8 plenty of times. My BIOS doesn't have any options for which OS to boot to, either. This is frustrating me greatly.
Is there any other way to access the boot manager from startup? I basically want to be booting up into Windows 7, and at some point remove XP completely. What did I do wrong? AM I doing something wrong? Any and all help will be very much appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
*edit* I've also tried booting directly from the disc by changing my boot priorities in my BIOS. All that does is bring me to the pretty Windows 7 screen with the flowers and whatnot. There's a mouse cursor I can move around, but nothing else. I can't right-click, or do anything with the keyboard.