I don't know about the driver issue, you will have to find out for
yourself if drivers for Windows XP are available. Did you try the Acer
support website to see what was available?

As for installing XP the best way to do this would be to stick a second
hard disk in the machine then install XP on it. While you install XP
you should disable the Vista hard disk, this will avoid potential errors
during the XP installation and it will ensure that your Vista
installation remains undamaged and available if the XP experiment fails.
You can disable the Vista disk in the BIOS or by temporarily pulling
the power connector to the disk. After Windows XP is successfully
installed you can connect or enable the Vista disk again and boot to
Vista, from the up and running Vista installation you can easily add XP
to the boot menu with the use of VistaBootPro.

If you don't want to use two hard disk then, unless the hard disk
already has an available free partition, you will have to resize the
current Vista partition and create a new one for XP, that can be a
pretty messy operation for the uninitiated. After you create the new
partition and install XP you will have to go into the Vista Recovery
Environment and use the /FixBoot command to repair the boot sector. You
should carefully consider the potential problems posed by this method,
the two hard disk method is much easier and safer to try.

John

NEED XP wrote:

Hello every one, I just recently purchased an Acer Aspire M100 desktop
which has Vista home premium. My question is, does any one know if XP can be
installed as a dual boot on this pc, and if it's possible what type of driver
issues can occur? I'm asking these questions on this forum because the Acer
"help" center didn't give me any definent answers. Any help, or info will be
greatly appreciated thanks.