Win XP install on i7Core fails

I have a HP I7 core 860 with 6GB memory, two 500GB drives running in a raid 0 configuration. It is running Win 7, and Win XP under VMWare, and has run Ubuntu 9-4 successfully. I want to run Win XP on this machine native, but when I try to install it I get a "7B Stop ". That failing, I tried to run from a flash card with BartPE installed, also get a 7B Stop. The flash card boots, almost starts, then the stop occurs. Any suggestions?

 

Steve,I am using Acronis OS Selector. I have used Acronis disk director to establish a partition, make it active, and then boot to the XP cd. Then install to that partition. Basically the same as your suggestion. But the install never finishes, the 7B stop occurs.
Anyway, booting from the BartPE on an SD should be independent of the disk partitioning, should it not? And that boot does not complete. The cd is good, the BartPE boots on two other machines.

 

Intel core i3 , i5 , i7 no longer supports windows xp so installing windows xp on these platforms is vain . An alternate method to run windows xp on this platform is first installing windows 7 then install windows xp mode s/w on 7 and mount xp . By this u can use windows xp virtually on 7

 

I have run Win XP in virtual mode on Win 7. I tried to install my HP 1200 printer on XP and was unsuccessful. If I remember correctly, Win 7 has a driver for the 1200, but it is incomplete. It will not handle double sided printing. When I try to install the driver on virtual XP, I run into problems with Win 7 controlling the printer. I may not have this exactly right. Anyway, I do want to run XP native on the i7 if possible.

 

I am running XP and FREEDOS on my Dell which has SATA drives. And I am using Acronis OS Selector which obviates the installation order problem. Does anyone have any thoughts about BIOS settings which would interfere with XP? I am still thinking running XP in native mode, to get Win 7 out of consideration.