SSD drive: Windows 7 installed
2 HDD's in Raid 1 configuration for files/data.
Single HDD I want to install XP on.
I slip streamed a CD with nlite with the RAID drivers and XP setup recognizes the drives. The probelm is when I go to install on the drive I get the following error:
Now I understand that the XP setup will overwrite the bootloader and fubar the Win7 boot but that can be fixed. None of the tutorials I've read say anything about XP wanting a new partition though and I believe the reason it does is because the Win7 disk is partitioned with GPT and XP needs MBR.To install Windows XP on the partition you selected Setup must write some startup files to the following disk:
<windows 7 disk>
However, this disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition.
To continue installing Windows XP, return to the partition selection screen ) and create a Windows XP-compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no free space on the disk, delete an existing partition , and then create a new one.
I'm guessing here the only way I can do this is reinstall 7 on MBR partition?