Hello, As the title suggests i am having a problem dual booting XP and windows 7. currently i have windows 7 RC 7100. due to lack of money currently i will not be able to keep windows 7 by buying a license, so i decided i would get a head start before the RC started what was to be imposed on the RC next year and install XP as a dual boot. so after resizing my windows 7 partition, i restarted with the CD in and tried to install XP. after going through all of the blue screen installation, i was prompted to restart, and did. when i did, i did not boot from the CD and i got this message: "A disk read error has occured" (sometimes the o in error dosnt show up as a side note). so i tried restarting and got the same message. i then restarted again and removed the cd but the problem persisted. so i decided the best way to fix it was to use the start up repair tool on my windows vista CD, which did the trick. what could be the problem here? what would cause this? (i have 36.5 gig of free space for xp, and havnt had any hardware issues ever. drivers are up to date. tight security on my system also.) Thanks in advance!

Hi, The Xp should be installed first then create partition for Win 7 . Then you should not get booting problems, Slan go foill, Paul

Thanks! that worked perfectly! (sorry it took so long to respond)