Howto Reinstall Win XP in an existing partition?

Hi everybody,
I want to reinstall Win xp but I have different partitions in the HD,because I have another OS installed, but the recovery cd will format the entire disk erasing my data.
I know that there's the possibility to reinstall Win in an existing partition with the "expert mode installation" but I don't know how can I do.
Someone can help me please?
thanks
Rick

Hi Rick
On this forum you can use Advanced search option to find some solutions if someone wrote about it before.
Anyway check this please http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2513&tstart=125
Using expert mode you can choose on which partition the Operating system should be installed.

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