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Oh, well why didn't you say so? Since you have Ultimate, you can just download and use XP Mode from here: Download Windows XP Mode
- Fred
So is XP mode an actual virtual machine which will work like a complete full version of XP?
It is in my system specs
But back to the OS, if I only use 1 at a time how will it know?
Yup and it's free for Professional and Ultimate users. You can put files into it from 7 and copy files from it too. You can also run your Windows XP applications from inside 7 without running the whole virtual machine (after you install them inside XP).
Like I said, it will know because it activates online.
From a technical perspective, it would be possible, but there would be 4 partitions; 2 recovery (automatically created) and 2 OS partitions. It would be much wiser and safer to install on separate harddrives.