Quote Originally Posted by LikesToTrip View Post
It looks like it is still trying to boot from the HDD instead of the DVD drive. Make sure you set the boot order correctly in bios, or that you are choosing the correct drive in the boot menu. How exactly were you trying to boot the CD?
I'm going to fire it up once again and select the CDROM as the only boot device. Not sure why it would be trying to boot from a blank HDD when the CDROM is set to 1st priority.

Quote Originally Posted by LikesToTrip View Post
The linux bootloader shouldn't fuck with windows, GRUB is pretty good at recognizing the correct windows boot partition. And since the problem is booting from the CD this is completely irrelevant.
I'm currently dual-booted with Ubuntu and XP and everything works perfectly. At my office, I have a dual-boot with Win7 and Ubuntu which installed perfectly also. I'm starting to grow a bit suspicious of the CDROM drive itself, but it boots the XP and Ubuntu CDs just fine. Then again, Win7 is a DVD and I've never booted from a DVD before.