Solved Install win XP on win 7

[karank6195]

Hello,
I have a win XP cd & I want to install it on my current win 7 without loosing my data & without loosing win 7.
A detailed answer might help me better

 

[JaidynM]

Hi karank6195,

I'm assuming you mean dual boot Windows 7 with XP? Bu dual boot I mean, having two seperate Operating Systems installed on the same hard drive but on different partitions (for more info, check out this Wikipedia page). If so, the following tutorial should cover just about everything.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html

Hope this helps,
Jaidyn

 

[theog]

With your partitioning problems in:
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/179532-make-3rd-partition.html

IMO, I would buy a Ext Drive for your Data.
If you have a desktop add a slave drive for Data.

 

[Arc]

OR,

Use VirtualBox , run XP as a guest OS . You will be able to use XP and Win 7 at the same time, you will not need to restart your computer to use either OS, it doesnot need a separate partition, and it is free

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello again.


I have a solution for the partition issue at the other thread and that will solve the XP install issue at the same time, create the Extended partition / Logical drive and install XP to that and that will work perfectly, no boot loader issues and if ever you want/need to remove XP a simple format to the Logical drive it's on will solve that.

 

[karank6195]

Oh!Thanks a lot all you above.
i got it.
thanks

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Good we could help and thanks for the update.

 

[theog]

You are welcome.