Restoring an XP Pro system and files to a new Partition on a Windows 7 computer

If you google for dualboot window 7 xp, some of results relate to the case of installing xp on existing computer with windows 7, eg http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8790/dual-boot-your-pre-installed-window… . Replace 'install XP from CD' step with 'restore XP from archive onto the new partition'. Moreover, it seems that if you choose not to restore MBR and not to mark the restored partition as active, the next step (replace XP's MBR with seven's) may be skipped. Then set up legacy entry for XP using bcdedit or third-party tools.
PS - if you don't take additional measures such as hiding W7's volume from XP, XP will delete W7's restore points when it will try to mount its volume.

Thanks dev-anon.
Thanks very much for your response.
Where this differs from my experience is that on the occasion of successfully restoring XP to the new partition, you do not get the "Computer now boots to XP step".
In my frustration, i've tried both Disk Editors dual boot loader and the other mentioned in your reference.
Via BCD, I've actually got to see the XP splash screen, but, then get "Blue Screen of Death", carrying this message " *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x00000000, 0x00000000).
I think there are somewhat unique circumstances at play here.
Hence my call for an Acronis how-to guide.
This must be a pretty common need.
Regards

Mike

It may be either old IDE drivers on XP that don't work with new AHCI mode ( see : HOWTO: enable AHCI mode after installing Windows ) or something else went wrong. You may try to change HDD mode in bios first to make sure it's the reason and if it is, try the googled solution (place AHCI driver that is specific to your motherboard in windows folder and then import .reg file to modify registry to load this driver at startup). The solution have to be adapted to the fact that XP is not bootable. You will have to boot into W7 and then 1) load XP's system hive into regedit, 2) before importing .reg file that contain strings like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\...
change them so that they point to the imported XP's hive, not your main W7 registry
OR
use Universal Restore (enabled by Plus Pack in TI Home versions)