The newer laptops that have Vista installed have what is called an EISA partition that contains all the recovery information and Vista installation info. This partition will keep the drive from installing a different operating system. There is a special procedure that will enable you to delete this particular partition. The best way is to remove the hard drive from the laptop and using an adapter attach it to another computer, this will allow easy access to the drive and all it's partitions. Either way, the procedure below will work.
EISA Partition Delete
select disk 0
Finish by Enter key.
select partition x
where x is the number of the EISA based recovery partition to be removed and unlocked its space. Be careful with the number of this partition, as wrong number may get data wipes off.
Once the partition has been deleted, exit from Diskpart, and now users can use the much familiar and much easier Disk Management tool in Windows (diskmgmt.msc) to manipulate the freed unallocated partition. Users can create a new volume (partition) with this space, or simply merge it to existing partition by extending the size of the existing partition.
Check your boot setting first in the cmos/bios of your laptop, look for the boot order from there choose your cd/dvd rom as your first boot device then the hard drive 2nd, you will need to this because in order for you to install xp, when you are done save the setting that you have made then restart the machine, insert your windows installation disc, it will prompt you to press any key to boot from the cd rom, from it will check you system config, then just follow the instruction given to you by the installation process read it carefully then it will be easy as 123, windows will guide you thru the installation process and will ask you for the lincense key, just make sure that you use a genuine copy of window if not you wont be able to register your o.s and you wont get the updates from windows
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