trying to install XP for dual boot

ggk

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i'm having a bit of trouble. i have windows 7 and i want to set it up with a dual boot for XP. i have partitioned space on the hard drive. what im looking at, start, right click computer, manage, disk managemant, theres a box that now says 125gb free space. i'm assuming that means i can install XP on that free space.

anyway, i've tried putting the XP disc in the drive, shutting the computer off, turning it back on. the problem is when i reboot, there's no options to install the disc on the space i've partitioned. i've gone into bios and changed the boot sequence so the cdrom drive boots first. i'm not getting a screen giving me the option to install XP on the partitioned/unallocated/free space disk space.
 
yeah it says free space. i have changed it and now it reads 125gb unallocated. i'm reading up on method 2 thanks for the post
 
ok i followed the instructions, set bios to do the CD/DVDRAM drive first. when i start the computer with the disc inserted nothing happens, it boots up like it normally would, no screen pops up asking me to push any key.
 
i know the CD drive is right, the computer is a month old. when i put the XP disc in, it registers that theres a XP disc in the drive, so i'm guessing that works too.

what should my next step be?
 
Is it a genuine xp install cd or is it a copy of a cd? Like I said before its either a bad drive, the cd isn't bootable or you need to change bios setting to boot from cdrom first and make sure you save settings before exiting.
 
Is it a genuine xp install cd or is it a copy of a cd? Like I said before its either a bad drive, the cd isn't bootable or you need to change bios setting to boot from cdrom first and make sure you save settings before exiting.
it is a copy of a disc, my first thought was the disc was bad, but when i have disk management open and i put it in, it reads the disc as windows XP. is it still possible it's a disc problem?

i've saved the boot setting to cd/dvdram to 1st. so the boot sequence is cd/dvdram then hard drive.
 
We are getting into a grey area here. Did you copy a genuine microsoft install cd or something else? This isn't something you got off the internet is it? Most likely the cd wasn't made bootable.
 
We are getting into a grey area here. Did you copy a genuine microsoft install cd or something else? This isn't something you got off the internet is it? Most likely the cd wasn't made bootable.
it was made from a genuine disc, so i'm not sure. i'm gonna have to look into the disc i guess. thanks for the input i'll keep you posted
 
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