In case if you have windows vista installed on your system then you have to install windows xp first then windows vista again.But If you want to install windows xp on the computer without installing vista again means installing windows xp over vista without all this then you can use the shrink drive feature of vista so as to get a new drive on which you can install windows xp.
1. Boot in Vista and go to - right-click My Computer>>Manage>>Disk Management.
2. Right-click on the main Vista partition and select Shrink Volume.
3. Enter the shrink size and it will reduce the volume of the primary partition, leaving the rest of the disk free as unpartitioned space.
4. Now Boot Up with Windows Xp Setup Cd and simply install Windows Xp on the new unallocated partition.
5. Now you need to repair the vista boot loader as the bootloader will get corrupted and you will not need any software to do it.For this just use Bootsect.exe to restore the Windows Vista MBR and the boot code that transfers control to the Windows Boot Manager program.To do this, first go to run ans type cmd type the following command at a command prompt:
Drive:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60 All
In this command, Drive is the drive where the Windows Vista installation media is located.
6.Now simply boot up your windows xp/vista dual boot configuration system.This will show you two options windows vista and earlier version of windows.This is what we were trying to do.
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