Welcome to Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) Parallel install guide. This guide
is step by step and should be used when you either run two operating
systems, or to access, repair or retrieve Data from a damaged operating
system.
This is a dirty install of windows (Which leaves damaged
files and possible virus/spyware infection on drive). Parallel installs are
usually only advised for backing up, data retrieval and running multiple
operating systems and is best done on a separate had drive or partition, but
is possible to do on the same drive/partition as long as you change the
install folder.