xp getting no xp

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Published on 2009-11-03T14:31:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 18:43 UTC
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I have a laptop on which I have two drives with separate XP installs, one barebones for music production, the other "normal" XP with Office etc. (Unfortunately the bios won't give a boot disk choice)

Normally I would be presented with two WinXPs on booting. Selecting the second one would get me into the "normal installation on disk 1 (C).Selecting the first in boot order would give me D: (disk 2) withe barebones XP.

However, I installed Windows 7 Home onto disk 1 (C:), but there were no dual boot options anymore, even though I installed DualBoot Pro and added WinXP disk D:.

The options now show show up, but seletcing Win XP just turns into a reboot back to where I started.

Any help would be much appreciated

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