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Can I really do it?
This looks to be a very good tutorial and I was very keen to add an XP partition to my new laptop. But I have made mistakes trying to do something clever on computers before and I don't want to replicate this and when I see 52 pages of forum messages my knees get a bit weak. I'm using a Packard Bell Butterfly Touch netbook (10.6 inch screen or thereabouts, Dual core 2 X U4100 processor @ 1.30GHz, 4GB Ram 320GB hard drive but no optical or floppy drive. When I read that I must install drivers from a floppy not a USB memory stick I wonder if I can get it working. I think that I have a SATA hard drive (or so it said in the advertising spec. It is a WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0).
Do you think I can do the dual boot installation without too much risk of messing up the computer - is it easy to undo anything I might do wrong. I have some XP programs which I would like to use on this laptop/netbook. I do have a floppy and an optical drive on my desktop computer and I've got a caddy which I think I can put them in but I'm pretty certain that they connect via a USB cable.
I realise that there are hundreds of members asking questions and I apologise for what may be rather silly questions and for the demands on members and administrators time.