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This is not a good scenario for a variety of reasons. Starting with XP is no good and then XP does not support Trim which means your SSD is going to be slowed down over time. XP should not be on SSDs - period.
I suggest you start anew. Clear the whole SSD - best with a Secure Erase - but that is compulsory. The commands below will clean the disk too.. Then allocate an aligned partition for Windows 7. You can use these commands:
Diskpart
List disk
Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in List disk)
Clean
Create partition primary align=1024 size=xMB (where x is the amount of MB's you want the partition to be)
Format fs=ntfs quick
Active
Exit
If you leave some remaining space on the SSD (e.g. your planned 33GBs for the XP partition), then you can define that partition with Disk Management.
Then install Windows 7 in the first partition without any XP and see whether that works. If yes, add XP to the second partition. In principle it should work too except for the performance degradation part mentioned earlier. If you run into new gremlins, post back.