[Znod]

I don't think your recovery disk is likely to allow anything but returning to factory fresh. Thus, you would need to start with what you have or by recovering first. I would think that you then could partition the drive and intall XP on the new partition. You then could, for example, use Vista Boot Pro to straighten out the Vista boot loader so that you could dual boot. What did you mean "load XP with the Bootable ...? Did you mean restore it using, for example, Acronis True Image. If so, the procedure is worth a try. I would assume that Vista Boot Pro again could straighten things out.