Thread: How do i install xp on a hard drive when vista is alleady installed on the other

I have a dell xps which has 2 500g hard drives running in raid 0 , vista is the op system
i have 5 yr old packard bell pc which i have taken the hard drive out and fitted it into the xps
i want to install xp onto this hard drive how do i do it ?

i have already tried disconnected to two main drives and leaving to old packard bell one connected , placed my copy of xp into a drive , changed the boot seq and all i get is the blue error screen when i connect the two main drives and boot as normal with vista i have no problems , in my computer i see the old hard drive and i can select it so my pc is recognising it i don’t like vista what i am after is installing xp on this old drive (which it will all ready have on but i want to reinstall it) and i will use xp as my main op system , after i install and update to service pack 3 iv been told is will recognize to 2500g hard drives as its own can anyone tell me how or why i cant install it to the old hard drive.

Thanks

You can install XP after Vista with a dual boot.

There's no need to disconnect drives. You can make XP the default boot option.

You will need XP install disk and Vista install disk.

The method linked below requires that you repair the Vista boot-loader as XP will over write it.

Once both operating systems are installed the fix takes around 5 minutes.

(The tutorial method shows installing to separate partition, the method is exactly the same for separate HDD. There will be no need to shrink or extend partitions).