Windows 7: Having problem with installing windows XP in pre-installed windows 7

Hi i am new to this site... i hope u will help me...



I have hp pavilion dv6 notebook pc with windows 7 home premium x64bit pre installed OS. now i want to use both windowsXP & 7 in my single pc

This is the screen shot of my Disk managment
I have 4 primary partitions in my 320GB HDD

1. SYSTEM
2. HP_TOOLS
3. Windows_7 (C
4. Local disk (D

Now i want to install windowsXP in Local Disk(D which is primary partition, but When i boot from windowsXP CD at startup it wont load setup files ie; automatically windows 7 will startup, then when i run setup directly from windows 7, 'Install windowsXP' option has disabled... so help me...

Please explain the steps briefly...


waiting for urs response...

thank you...

Hi and welsome to the Forum,
Here's the perfect tutorial for your needs:
Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

Can i install directly windows xp service pack3...?

What installation disc do you have?

This is how i am getting like this when run XP setup

This is how i am getting like this when run XP setup

and what is RAID setup and SATA drive, how can i indentify in my pc, and why these are necessary...?

How far have you got with the installation? Please also reply to my question in Post no 4 above.

i have both windowsXP sp2 & sp3

when i boot from windowsXP cd on startup, it wont ask me to "press any key to continue setup" ( i cant run setup during bootup)... directly windows 7 will start... i think is there any problem with winXP installation CD's...?

Actually my WindowsXP installation disks are 32bits, can i install 32bits OS in my 64bits machine...?

I think problem is due to these 32bit disks