I have a windows Vista home Premium PRE-INSTALLED on 250GB Hard drive
Here is the scenario:
The Disk is partitioned by the manufacturer as the follow:
47 MB healthy; RECOVERY (D 10.00 GB NTFS healthy Primary Partition; OS (C 223 GB NTFS healthy (System, Boot, Page, Active… Primary Partition).

I partitioned (C and obtained a new volume 30 GB, changed drive letter to (E because of the DVD and the CD Rom The new Volume (E become a LOGICAL DRIVE. I formatted it. When I rebooted the PC with the XP CD the installation after stopped in midway and crashed (Blue Screen).

What should I do in order to achieve the dual boot with a windows Vista PRE-INSTALLED and XP?

itd be iinteresting to note the computer you have. I just bought an XP hoping that id be able to dual boot, of course, hp hasnt and really doesnt care to come out with drivers. It could be the cd ur booting from if its not formatted correctly however if its authentic, u shouldnt have a problem. Are you choosing what partition to save the operating system to?

thanks much for helping
This is a dell Dimension E520 machine I am working on it.
I have a windows Vista home Premium PRE-INSTALLED on 250GB Hard drive

The Disk is partitioned by the manufacturer as the follow:
-47 MB healthy; -RECOVERY (D 10.00 GB NTFS healthy Primary Partition; -OS (C 223 GB NTFS healthy (System, Boot, Page, Active… Primary Partition).

I partitioned (C and obtained a new volume 30 GB, changed drive letter to (E because of the DVD and the CD Rom The new Volume (E become a LOGICAL DRIVE. I formatted it. When I rebooted the PC with the XP CD the installation after stopped in midway and crashed (Blue Screen).

I think if the new partiton come as system instead of logical I should be in good shap. Most of the scenario I have see a example so far there were no recovery on a partition