Insatlling windows xp with windows 7 installed first

[harleyf250]

Hello, I have a brand new dell XPS 8700 with windows 7 pre-installed that I purchased from Costco. I like to play older games, so I bought a brand new copy of Windows XP to install as a dual boot option. I have correctly created a partition and when I insert the Windows XP disc in and boot from it, I get the following message -- "acpi.sys is corrupted". At thi pont, the installation fails and the system reboots into Windows 7. I have done extensive online research and seen many tutorials on how to do this, but of course, none of the videos encounter this problem. There is tons of information online about this error, but none on how to fix it in this situation. Any help would be greatly appreaciated. Thanks

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Just saying, you should be able to play all old games on Windows 7. If there are any troubles, you can simply run the game in Windows XP compatibility mode and it'll work fine. Heck, I play 1999 Roller Coaster Tycoon on my Windows 8.1 PC!

 

[Rally0078]

Put ur CD in the drive and boot. it will ask you to install from CD

 

[WyomingKnott]

I agree with turkey3_scratch for various reasons. One is that it's difficult to dual-boot two versions of Windows if you install the older one second. The other is a decent chance that XP drivers may not be available for the newer hardware.

Nevertheless, a new XP distro CD should at least boot. Where did you get it?

 

[harleyf250]

Just saying, you should be able to play all old games on Windows 7. If there are any troubles, you can simply run the game in Windows XP compatibility mode and it'll work fine. Heck, I play 1999 Roller Coaster Tycoon on my Windows 8.1 PC!

That would work for games that are not very video card intensive

 

[harleyf250]

I agree with turkey3_scratch for various reasons. One is that it's difficult to dual-boot two versions of Windows if you install the older one second. The other is a decent chance that XP drivers may not be available for the newer hardware.

Nevertheless, a new XP distro CD should at least boot. Where did you get it?

It was a brand new shrink wrapped cd bought on ebay. I am in touch with th eseller to try and get a new copy. Thanks

 

[harleyf250]

Put ur CD in the drive and boot. it will ask you to install from CD

That's what I'm doing, and it gives me that error as it is inistalling

 

[WyomingKnott]

It was a brand new shrink wrapped cd bought on ebay. I am in touch with th eseller to try and get a new copy. Thanks

Try to boot it in some other machine, preferably an older one. That just sounds weird; a proper disk should boot, a pirated disk should have been tested by the pirate, and if someone's selling malware-infected disks you would think he tests that they will actually deliver the malware. The only reason I could think of for this is being run on a machine with hardware too new for XP default drivers, and that's not the message you got.

All, when you reply to someone else can you get the quoted text and your answer in the same post, not one post with only the quoted text and one with the answer? We mods have to clean it up. Thanks.