Installation of OS Selector from CD fails
I have done this before, and I do not understand what the problem could be.
I have set up my system, an old [2003] P4 IBM with a PATA 150GB and a SCSI 70GB drive. On the PATA drive, I have created partitions and have WinXP Prof booting from Partition 3 just fine, and another WinXP in a hidden Partition 5. I have a 500MB partition onto which I plan to install OSS.
Now, when I boot to the CD that was created with my Disk Director program and select to install OSS, the program starts up and soon goes to "Analyzing Partitions..." and goes no further. The disk activity lite is on solid. I have tried booting with the SCSI disconected, and also tried booting with another copy of my Acronis disk.
There is nothing else on this system, as I am setting up two clean XP systems, and am planning to add another XP and a Win98. So with 6 partitions on the disc, there is only the booting XP and the hidden XP.
What is up with this?

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Yep. Me again.
I took the disc with my four systems and put it into another computer, booted with my Acronis CD and lo and behold, I was able to install OSS. I am now at the point where two of the XP systems [ on logical partitions ] were not detected.
So, I guess that the answer I was looking for was: Yes. Something about the IBM computer kept OSS from installing. Any ideas anybody?
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Hello davcbr,
sorry for the delayed answer.
You are right, the initial issue with OS selector installation most likely was a hardware-specific one. I'm very glad to know that after you attached your drive to another machine everything functioned as expected.
Now please start OS Detection Wizard from the Tools menu to detect your operating systems.
Thank you.
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