Comments on: Partition XP Installation http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/partition-xp-installation/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: chippy088 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/partition-xp-installation/#comment-80051 chippy088 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:01:18 +0000 #comment-80051 You are getting the BSOD because of changes to the MBR made to do the new install, once windows transfers control to the install program located on the master partition, it can no longer see the secondary partition where it needs to get further data to complete the installation.

You would be able to set the secondary partition as the back-up once the xp installation is done, using back-up from the control panel. (Windows 7 doesn’t like backing up on the same physical hard drive as the OS. Logical really, as if the HD fails through a hardware fault the backup is lost.)

If the laptop can boot from usb, you could transfer the iso to a thumb stick, (much safer) and boot from that. The web has some good tutorials for making bootable thumb sticks. I used bartpe to make my recovery stick.

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