Installing XP on Zorin hard drive

Running Zorin 9 Lite on a solid state hard drive on a Thinkpad T40. Used the forecepae option and the installation went well. I'm happy with the way Zorin is set up and everything seems to be running. I want to partition off part of the hard drive, install Windows XP and make the laptop dual bootable. Only way I can think of is to do a fresh install of XP then re-install Zorin. Is there a way of doing this without overwriting Zorin?

I wouldn't know where to begin on SSD drive but quick question - did you format SSD to ext2 and 'trimmed' before installing Zorin? Ideally Windows should always be placed on first partition - I have seen it done the other way round but it can break later down the line. I would question your need to install XP (so long as it is off-line) and if it is a base version of XP you may not get it to install to SSD!

The new SSD was partitioned and formatted with Windows XP, but XP wasn't installed. Zorin was and the drive works well - 30 seconds to boot up and about 5 seconds shut down. I manually trim it with fstrim. Not sure what the ext2 command does. I'll have to check that out.

ext2 is the file system - by default Zorin uses ext4 a journaling file system. XP on netbooks that had SSD's in them used FAT32 Windows XP Home (non-journaling system). Ext4 FS will effectively shorten the life of an SSD!

I have the same request... sort of. I have a desktop system running Zorin Ultimate. Drives (two 1-TB HD's) were formatted prior to installing Zorin. I installed Zorin, and its working fine, now I wanted to install the beta-version of Windows-10 to try it out. Wondering if there is a way to either partition the boot drive at this point for dual-boot, or, set up the secondary 1-TB drive for Windows partition and installation. In the end I would like to be able to boot into either Windows-10, or Zorin.
Possible??? If so, any thoughts on how to accomplish this? There is noting of value on either drive, so I guess the easiest way would be to load the Windows disk and install Windows (effectively removing Zorin), then re-install Zorin, selecting the dual boot option. Anything I should be cautious about going the re-install route, like file system type mentioned above for the SSD (keeping in mind my drives are conventional HD's) ?

Please start a new thread! Then I will answer!

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the preferred way is to install XP first & then the Zorin O/S,
( coz a win O/S won't recognise a 'nix O/S )

if done the other way, then the 'nix boot-loader has to be re-installed. ..
- with either way, some - pre-partitioning - would be in order.