Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Installing Win XP. 2 OS in one hard disk

by stockstorm Feb 11, 2008 2:27PM PST

Hi, I wanted to install win xp in my laptop but i do not have any idea how to do it. My laptop model is Compaq Presario V3000. I currently have Win Vista home installed and have only one partition on my hard disk. I have 53.1GB free of space out of 149 GB. What should i do to install both OS in my laptop? I only have recovery disks of my laptop and a Win XP installation disc.

Discussion is locked

1 Posts

- Collapse + Expand Details

- Collapse -

Three main steps...

by John.Wilkinson Feb 12, 2008 11:59AM PST

1.) Shrink your current hard drive partition and create a second one from that space. GParted is a free utility that can do that.
2.) Install XP to the newly-created partition as you normally would.
3.) Click here for the instructions to make Vista bootable again.

Hope this helps,
John

Back to Windows Vista forum