Now many laptops are being shipped with windows 7 os.Some of the users may still want to use the trusted windowsxp.So iam gonna teachu how to install xp on a system preinstalled with windows7.To install windows xp to dual boot with windows7 we require either an empty partition or you can create an new partition yourself by shrinking free space present in a drive.If you have a windows7 preinstalled system with many drives then you can select any drive to install xp.Some of the laptops are shipped only with only one partition,to install winxp on such systems you have to shrink some amount of available free disk space into new partition .Let me tell you how to do that
Open your start menu now type
partition in
search programs and files box.Now click on
Create and format harddisk partition
The disk management window opens now now click on your c drive and select
shrink partition
Now a window fires out querying how much of free disk space is available.You will be shown the total size of the disk,amount of free space available to shrink
Now give the amount of space required for ur new drive and click on
shrink button.
After shrinking you will be displayed with raw partition now right click on it and select
New simple volume.
New simple volume wizard starts up confirming again for simple volume in mb,then it assign a drive letter .Now under Format partition section NTFS is selected by default leave it,also give the
volume label name ,check the quick format box.
Click on next after the format is completed you will see the new healthy volume with ur volume label.
thats it a new partition is created .Now boot your system with windowxp bootable cd .Select the newly created volume for installing xp after installing you can see that your system starts with windows xp this is bcoz the xp bootloader overwritten windows 7 bootloader.Dont panic now use the software called
EasyBcd 1.72 and click on
Writembr and see the magic .Restart your computer now you can see both operating systems
Download the software by clicking here
EasyBcd 1.72 .
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