Windows 7 - Installing windows XP for duel booting?

[SkScotchegg]

Hi there, please can you offer me some advice.

I've currently got windows 7 beta installed with all updates and drivers, and I am wanting to have windows xp installed on the same system, so I was wondering what the easiest way of doing this was?

I have heard about duel booting before where you run a program on your current installation and you have another OS installed inside that program and I think I saw it one time where there was like a window on the desktop that you could open and maximise and then you'd be inside a whole other OS.

I have a brand new PC with quad core and 4gigs of ram so I believe my spec can handle this.

Any help given would be much appretiated.

P.S. Reasons for this is because most of my games work in windows 7 but some such as rainbow six las vegas dont, so I want xp in a duel boot setup so I can have the best of both worlds.

Thanks in advance.

 

[SkScotchegg]

Can I use that program and do it all on one harddrive because I dont have another hard drive, just one big hard drive.

Thanks in advance.

 

[SkScotchegg]

Thanks for your replies.

Rainbow Six Las Vegas was causing me and my cousin endless problems, we were having problems connecting to each others machine over lan and online and also we had a bug where when I was in game he couldnt hear me on team speak, and we never used to have either of these problems before on xp.

The single player was working fine.