Dual-Boot On Laptop:Two Media Center Options?
Oct 1, 2006
I recently WIPED 160GB HDD in the laptop, then Fresh Reinstalled Windows XP Media Center Edition. I even deleted Dell's "partion" on the drive. When I bootup, I get TWO (2) options to boot into, but BOTH say: "Windows XP Media Center Edition" and "Windows XP Media Center Edition" However only the TOP one will allow me to bootup.
When I click on the Bottom option, I get the following: Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. I do however want to create a DUAL, or even TRIPLE Boot so I can install a Linux distro, Windows Vista RC1 Beta, and Media Center XP....
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Sep 17, 2009
I'm trying to make a dual boot system Vista/XP with my HP Media Center purchased in 2007 with Vista pre-installed. Inside Vista I created the partition for XP (disk D and rebooted with the 'XP Pro SP2' inside. After selecting its correct partition for installing it copies all files on hard disk and it reboots in order to start its installation, upon rebooting and starting first time from hard disk, it says that there is an error in the system and stops. If I install only XP on the system it works correctly even though some newest hardware is not recognized. I had already made a dual boot two years ago with a 2007 XP Student Edition and it smoothly. If it is due to the XP version being too old that maybe cannot deal with the boot record created by Vista
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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