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Old 10-04-2007, 08:50 AM
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Hi, I have Vista pre installed on my HP Pavilion dv2000 and was hoping to get a dual boot with XP. I have partitioned the HDD as you suggested and that worked ok, I now find that when atempting to install XP the screen says that it has compatibility issues as the current version is a later version.
how can I get around this. I have XP SP2.

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James
It sounds like you are attempting to install XP on the same partition as Vista, and i doubt Vista would allow this. Make sure your partition is a primary/active partition and that you are attempting to install on the correct partition.



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