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Have Disk Error when installing XP
am trying to get a few video games to work on my new Windows 7 OS...but with all the combination of patches and compatibility modes it still does not work. So I tried yesterday to do a dual boot system taking 50 Gig's of my 300 Gig Raptor drive (which has my current OS on it), I went into the control panel and un-allocated 51200 MB of disk space and then crated a new partition. I then proceeded to install Windows XP on the new drive (after formatting the section). However after windows finished copying over the needed files to start the install, it restarts before actually installing windows. I get a "Read Disk Error press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to restart" right after i chose not to boot from the disk.
It never gets installed... The only way I was able to get the disk to boot back up in Windows 7 again was to remove the partition (just leaving 50 Gigs un-allocated) and putting in the windows 7 disk and doing a Boot Repair. Is this a problem with the drive? I have done numerous types of drive scans and the drive is in good condition and have never had any issues with bad sectors.
I am worried of trying it again on the same drive as my main OS, is there any harm in having it on my storage disk?
Thanks for any help or direction you can provide.