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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Nup. I have 5 spare Sata ports in the box.
I'll just make up a new XP disk and boot into it as reqd.
Much simpler and cheaper.
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Or, cheaper again, download and burn a Linux distro with disk/partition tools, boot it, shrink your W7 partition, install XP in the free space, and install a Linux-friendly bootloader like Grub to manage the multi-boot. I've done it many times - works beautifully*.
* Though there is a very small likelihood that you will competely scramble your harddribe and lose all your data. Backup recommended beforehand. 