Dual boot using supplied XP recovery disk on Portege R500-11C

I have a new Portege R500-11C which came with Vista Business installed, but also has an XP Pro recovery disk as well as a Vista recovery disk. The laptop also came with a partitioned hard drive.
I would like to use the XP recovery disk to install XP on the 2nd partition (drive E), without erasing Vista, so that I have a dual boot machine. Does anyone know if this is possible, perhaps by using the expert rather than standard mode?

Hello Elanor
Just short comment to all this:
> When I asked Toshiba support if I could use these disks to make a dual boot machine, they said no, that the XP > recovery disk would wipe the Vista installation - but posts here suggest otherwise!
I do not know on which posts you think but I am also pretty sure that you can not use two recovery DVDs with different operating systems to install two operating systems and make dual boot. Unfortunately I have no possibility to test this but, as far as I know, you can not install recovery image on unallocated disk space.
Just for example: if you use Vista recovery DVD and install OS on new partition using SETUP option (for example you can take 50 % of HDD capacity) using second recovery DVD (WXP) you will not be able to choose second partition as favourite place to install WXP. You can just do the same as with Vista recovery image.
For older notebooks recovery menu was different and using expert mode it was possible to choose already existing partition for OS installation.
If you have some time please test it and give some feedback. It can be very useful info for al of us.

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