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Message: <blockquote data-quote="+LUSI" data-source="post: 10051062" data-attributes="member: 354378">Install Windows XP in Dual Boot with Pre-Installed Windows 7This  is preliminary testing work and I'm using Windows 7 Build 6519 and  Build 6801 to base these results on. Both these pre-Beta builds create a  small separate System partition on which to house the boot system  files, bootmgr and the folder Boot. This behavior has only been noted when Windows 7 is the only operating system installed. See the screenshots below. I have not yet been able to verify that Windows 7 Build 7000 behaves in the same way.Warning that System Partition may be created<a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4475/createsyspart1lj1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>System Partition Created<a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2296/createsyspart2rp2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>System Partition in Disk Management (no driver letter allocated)<a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/3388/diskmanre1bp7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Windows Explorer (System Partition does not appear because no drive letter allocated)<a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/251/winexplre1ji1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Windows Explorer Installation Drive (No boot system files)<a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4278/winexpl2recb1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Without allocating a drive letter to the System partition  in Windows 7, I used Disk Management to shrink the drive it was on and  created a partition of 34 GB on which to install Windows XP  Professional.Windows XP Professional setup saw the small System  partition and the first hint that all was not well was that it allocated  a drive letter (C:\) to the System partition and changed the drive  letter Windows 7 was installed on to D:\<a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/8995/xpw7install1ht7.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>After XP setup completed the file copy process and rebooted, I got this error message:<a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4537/xpw7install2ql7.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>I then booted to the Windows 7 DVD and selected Repair my computer at the Install now setup screen. Startup Repair  had no effect at all and I again got the same "error loading operating  system" message on reboot. I rebooted to the Windows 7 DVD and this time  selected System Restore from the menu. That was unsuccessful too and on reboot I again got the "error loading operating system" message. <a href="http://imageshack.us/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1421/xpw7install3li4.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> At  this point I suspect the problem is caused by NOT allocating a drive  letter to the System partition that Windows 7 creates, BEFORE running XP  setup. I'll confirm that shortly and then continue with this thread.Try this method </blockquote>

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