Uwe St?ckel wrote:
> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> Close the computer down, remove the UBCD, and reboot from your XP 
>> install media. It should then install XP, asking if you want to keep 
>> your existing partition layout.
>>
>> That's what happened when I did it, anyway....
>>
>> If you can get a Bart PE CD, then a lot of this can be done using a GUI. 
>> I've not used this method, though, and you'll need a working XP computer 
>> to make the Bart PE CD-R.
> 
> When I tried to install XP without removing all data from the Disk I
> had the impression that the XP-Installdisk did not have any driver for
> the internal hard drives (both the same 160 GB size). 
> Or was that just because something on the drives inhibited the
> installation of other software? 

RAID setups can cause problems as they need a driver at install time, 
but Vista makes the MBR area unwriteable for XP. The XP formatting tools 
won't touch it until the Vista bootloader has been cleared. It may also 
be that as the machine is shipped with Vista, there are no XP drivers 
for the chipset used, although a standard SATA or IDE HD should be 
recognised anyway.

-- 
Tciao for Now!

JOhn.