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Doesn't that suck, waiting 10 hours,, ouch....Anyways, I would suggest you to remove all the cards like Sound Card and Network card and then try to install again. Also invest $20 and get your self a network card (If you have a built in the disable it from BIOS) after installing the operating system with all the patches the add in your cards on at the time and install the driver for it.
By the way, Partition Magic 8.0 in a great software. It does have a module called Boot Magic, you could use that you have a mutiboot of your computer. First Split your drive to what ever size you want (MAKE SURE BOTH DRIVES ARE PRIMARY PARTITION) the you can use the boot menu to boot into which ever you want and even have two operating system which are independent of each other (I sound like PQ sales person .. anyways, please post your results.



cheers