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Trevor. I appreciate the suggestions you made to Crusnik, but I too have run into that exact problem of not getting XP to do a restart after it reaches the final installation stage.
I have used the W7 disc to repair so I can do a W7 boot at least.
Afterwards while in W7 I have found that the XP files are all on the new partition I made in W7. In fact, using bcdedit while in W7, I was able to get a bootladder that showed both W7 and XP when I did a restart. But when choosing XP it would never boot in to XP. It would just give me an error and freeze and i would have to do a repair with the W7 disc to start all over again.
Did this entire process a half dozen times, from the very first step to the last. Each time redoing each step anew.
I do believe that it would have worked if I would have installed XP first and then W7, but I didn't.
I believe this all has to do with the issue that XP never really really completes a full installation since it was unable to restart at the final stage. Wish I could just get that XP to restart after the install...Dang.
Any further thoughts or similiar problems or comments is appreciated.