Can I have a sytem of dual boot with Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows XP Professional?

My laptop came preloaded with Windows Vista Edition Home Premium on the C drive.  The drive D partition contains recovery software.  I have a partition formatted f with nothing in it.  Can I install Windows XP Professional on the partiion F and have a system dual boot?  If so, how to load F installation CD when it wants to install in C?

It is the instance of Vista installation.

Come on first, site of the manufacturer of your computer, check to see if your model computer has XP drivers available for it...

If the XP drivers are not available for your model, forget the idea.

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm

Read the above.

See you soon. Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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