Thank you all who responded and sorry for not having written back. I ended up with Robert McBroom's suggestion below. Cheers, Khem On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:35 -0500, McBroom, Robert C wrote: > Looks like you're having a problem with mixing the two disk hardware > types. I've had a similar problem with a mother board that had an early > ide 133 bus in addition to a ide 100 bus. Try using the boot.ini in the > windows 2003 to boot your XP. > Here is a sample I use to boot multiple XP installs. Note the line for > the sdb drive. The quoted phrase is information for use when the boot > loader is active. > > [boot loader] > timeout=30 > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS > [operating systems] > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 3sda5 > Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 3sdb1 > Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 3sda3 > Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn > > Robert McBroom >
