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winxp and win7
I currently have a Packard Bell with Quad core processor, 6 Gb ram etc. operating 64bit windows 7 home premium.
I want to install win xp for dual boot. This is because I am trying to operate several 32 bit program that are not compatable with win7 64bit
I was unable to put xp in the right partition. Sort of?
I have 4 partitions
1 Dynamic 1mb 0 free
2 PQservice(NTFS) 15360mb 6782 free
3 Dynamic 100mb 0 free
4 Dynamic 368942mb 0 free
Unpartitioned Space
When trying to install into 1 to 4 - I got the error cannot write onto Dynamic Drive?
When selecting unpartitioned space - error maximum number of partitions?
IMages may help my problem
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The first error says. Maximum number of partitions already exist?
Its the default HD, i did create one but corrently deleted it again.
Thoughts
I have managed to show only 3 partitions with disk management but when installing winxp, another 'hidden' partition, at the beginning, shows up! This is only 1 mb and cannot be deleted. I still have 4 and unable to load winxp.
Someone out there must have loaded winxp onto a machine that already has win7 installed?
Any help would be appreciated