Thanks for all your replies people. Feeling a little more confident to perform this. One more question to NavyLCDR. Why exactly is it undesirable to have these boot files end up on the XP drive? Do...

Wouldn't that mean a new XP installation? Or is there a way to migrate my current XP installation to a VM environment? The thing is I need to keep my current XP installation intact as is and...

Hi,

I have seen posts that are partially related to my question, but do not answer all of my questions. Here the situation:

GOAL:
Create a dualboot system with a clean WIndows 10 installation...