Hi Guys.

efc, for your info. EASEUS Pro is the program that I have and have used 2 or 3 times in the past but never to set up a dual boot system.

My question does not relate to my system but to a friend's laptop fitted with a 160 Gig HD. Upon purchase his laptop was fitted with Win 7 (or was it Vista)but he does not like it and is considering having XP installed upon the new partition, hence the question.

So, back to the question, if the new (second) partition was created and created as another "Primary" partition, then there should be no problem installing XP in it, is that you are saying?

piaqt, when you say 'run msconfig' I take it you mean it to run from Start > Run> msconfig, while Windows is running?

When I run msconfig from there, I only see a 'boot ini' tab and when clicked on, I do not recognize any of the titles that I should click as I have not ventured to this tab before. So which one should I click and what can I expect to happen and at what point of time?

Your MSKB link does not open, I take it you are referring the Microsoft help files.

Regards.