Shoutbox

i suggest you buy more memory xp should run ok on 512MB

and you could always go to control panel\system\Advanced\Presformance settings\
and Adjust XP to run for perfomnce,  instead for appearance, so remove all the xp visual graphics crap and end up with a faster machine
this is so common for laptops....

Also you need to format the whole drive in order to create partitions, so everything will be lost,

i once formatted a single hdd to hade 1 partition windows 98SE and teh other partition to have XP, but the problem with 98 is that they are using FAT32 filesystem instted of the one used by XP NTFS, so 98 could not read teh other partition, but xp could read both...
ok their are utilties to fix this....

Generally i dont beleive it is good to hack your hdd in two, it is best you buy another drive.... it strains the motor and hardware staff, so the drive could fail sooner that expected...

My suggestion buy more RAM
i mean you have a processor of 2.6GHz and you give it minimum amount of info (RAM) to work with, so you dont utilise the full potential of the processor