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CD installation problem
Hi
I'm trying to install windows 7 on a machine that currently has XP Home on it. I have set the DVD drive to be the 1st boot device in the BIOS, but the machine refuses to recognise the installation disk (Genuine copy direct from MS) - it just skips over it and boots straight into XP. Unfortunately the BIOS does not allow for booting from a USB drive so I am a bit stuck.
I gather from reading other threads that it is possible to boot from a Vista installation disk (yes the machine will recognise this installation disk and boot from it) and then at some point substituite the W7 disk to complete the W7 installation. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Alternatively is there a way to force the machine to boot from the W7 DVD - it won't run from within XP either. I have tried using an XP boot disk to try and run setup from there but it just comes up with a readme file that says that the O/S needs to support ISO-13346 "UDF" file system.
Grateful for any assistance to get W7 on this machine!