>Do you have a SATA drive?

What else an idiot Al-Alias could ask else?

What does it have to do with the problem? How does a SATA drive influences
the fact that the OP is unable to install an older OS over Vista? What if
the drive is SATA, then what? The next question by an idiot will apparently:
is it RAID1?

Well, to the OP: it is too bad that crooks like Al-Alias hang around here
and get on the way unable to help just creating confusion and hatred.

As far as the substance goes: you CANNOT install an older XP over Vista,
HOWEVER, there are a number of tweaks. I haven't tried any of them. The
source is MSFN.

One link (by spacesurfer):

To install an older Windows operating system on a computer running Windows
Vista, use the following procedure
[url]http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-Vista-Fix-Bootloader-t100672.html[/url]

Another post at MSFN (by Spooky) starts like this:

Many questions regarding making XP and Vista boot independently of each
other arise because users face problems when one partition becomes corrupt
or they format their active partition, not knowing they will lose the
ability to boot their OS. Having independent boot would avoid this scenario.
[url]http://www.msfn.org/board/XP-Vista-dual-boot-Independently-t98982.html[/url]

Good luck. It is doable but you really do not need XP once you've got Vista.

"Alias" <iamalias@removethisgmail.com> wrote in message
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> Joe wrote:[color=green]
>> I am currently running on Vista reduced functionality.
>>
>> I have tried to boot off of XP disc and it checks for compatability and
>> either states there's an error or stops. It never gives me the option to
>> partition a drive. When I log onto the reduced fucntionality mode, and
>> access the XP installation disc, click setup in the disc's folder: either
>> the Install Windows XP link is not highlilghted, or when it is, i click
>> Install Windows XP, it states:
>>
>> set up cannot continue because the version of windows on your computer is
>> newer than the version on the CD. The help link which checks for a
>> solution states that their is no solution and doesn't bring me to a
>> microsoft url for help.
>>
>> I have put the installation disc into another computer and it works fine.
>>
>> Please let me know if you know what's going on here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe Sal
>>
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>
> Do you have a SATA hard drive?
>
> Alias[/color]