HOWTO reinstall Win XP in an existing partition?

Hello world

I want to reinstall Win xp but I have different on the HD partitions, because I have another operating system installed, but the recovery cd will format the entire disk erase my data.

I know that there is the possibility to reinstall Win in an existing partition with the "expert mode" installation but I don't know how I can do.

Can someone help me please?

Thank you

Rick

Hi Rick

On this forum you can use the option search advanced solutions if someone writes about this before.

Anyway check this please http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2513&tstart=125

Using the expert mode, you can choose on which partition the operating system must be installed.

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