Can Vista and XP be used side by side on a Satellite A210?

We have recently bought an A210-1B1 laptop that has Windows Home Vista installed.
As the laptop has provision to add another hard-drive, can we load an XP drive, so that the required system can be opened, depending on the requirement, at the time.
We are trying to use a 'DJ' programme, that isn't compatible with Vista.

Hi
First of all Im not 100% sure if your notebook supports 2 HDDs.
Ive got a A210 Satellite and it has 2 HDD bays but it cannot be upgraded with a second HDD because the second SATA controller is not available. Ive removed the second HDD bay plastic cover and didnt find any connectors.
But you can use both operating systems on one HDD.
You could create a second partition and on this partition you could install the Win XP.
But this is a little bit tricky.
The point is that the XP would overwrite the Master boot record and would change the Vista boot manager.
After the XP installation you would be not able to chose the Vista OS.
But dont worry buddy I found a solution. You would need an original Vista DVD. (I borrowed it from a friend)
After the XP installation you have to boot from the Vista CD. This would install the Vista boot manager again.
Now you need a free tool called EasyBCD. This helps you to edit the boot manager and to include new XP entry.
If you want you can google for EasyBCD and more details.
Bye

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