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Alright thanks for the help guys. Dual boot is the best option for us as we use fairly system intense programs that require XP. The XP mode may not be sufficient.
Well for some odd reason the Dell BIOS has 3 SATA settings, ATA, AHCI, and Raid On. It came preinstalled on the Raid On setting, but in order to boot from XP i needed to switch it to ATA. However, when it was switched to ATA I couldn't boot Win7 but I could boot XP, and vice versa when I switched back to Raid On. I just talked to our IT person and it seems like they also recommended what Theog has.
I'm going to first backup the Utility and Recovery partitions as disk images on an external drive, then commence the install of SATA drivers and reinstall of XP. Now to find those drivers
Thanks again for your insight and I will let