XP on VISTA laptop

[bob10236]

Hello,
I have a laptop with VISTA and would like to have a dual boot with XP Pro but everytime I try to install to a second partition that option is grayed out and a message says I already have a newer (not better) version. Is there a way around this?

 

[saint19]

Hi newcomer and welcome to the Tom's hardware forum.

For a dual boot, you always need install the older version 1st, that in this case is XP.

 

[bob10236]

Best answer selected by bob10236.