>>X<<' Wrote:Last time I looked you couldn't dual boot XP with XBMC Live from the hard drive because XBMC Live formats the whole drive before installing ,you would have to install XP then do a minimal install of XBMC not XBMC Live
Dual booting is really fairly simple, since the live CD includes the fdisk tool (and always has).
Boot from Live CD, stop the XBMC installer and drop to command line shell.
Run fdisk from there to create your preferred partition sizes, then reboot and let XBMC-Live installer do it's thing, instructing it not to use the full disk, but one of the partitions you just created.
Once it's done, install Windows onto one of the other partitions.
After Windows install has completed boot from the Live CD once more, and run the grub config. It will detect both the Linux & the Windows installs, and overwrite Windows boot-loader with a new boot config menu that has both - select your preferred OS for autostarting and set the wait timeout for user input for a different selection to whatever you want.
Job done - not a nightmare at all