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Jun 4, 2006Im downloading right now and since they is alot of trouble on vista its probably not gonna come out for another year or year n half they were gonna resale it summer 2006.
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Or perhaps such an old XP cannot recognize a boot hard disk that is not C:?
Is there a way to bypass this point (perhaps fixing the boot record) in order to continue correctly the installation?
Thank you,
Al
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