Boot XP problem -

[JD]

On 02/19/2011 10:12 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>      I bought this computer with Windows XP installed. I removed the hard
>      drive it came with and installed the hard drives from the computer
>      it replaced. That went well except that the Win-XP on the "old"
>      disks knew it had moved and refuses to boot. So this morning I
>      thought I'll install the original drive as a third drive and change
>      grub.conf to fit.
>
>      That done Win XP will not boot, produces an error message:
>
>              Error 12:    Invalid or unsupported executable format.
>
>      I can mount the drive in F-14 and list the directory.
>
>      I took my best guess at the grub designation for the drive:
>
>              title Windows-XP-Pro
>                   rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>                   chainloader +1
>
>              It had been:
>
>              title Other
>                   rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>                   chainloader +1
>
>      Fdisk shows the drive details as:
>
>              [root at box9 bobg]# fdisk /dev/sdc
>
>              Command (m for help): p
>
>              Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
>              255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488
>              sectors
>              Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>              Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>              I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>              Disk identifier: 0xc1c1c1c1
>
>                  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>              /dev/sdc1   *          63   156280319    78140128+   7
>              HPFS/NTFS
>
>              Command (m for help):
>
>      What am I doing wrong or is Windows refusing to boot because the
>      drive is not where it wants it?
>
>      Any thoughts/help appreciated.
>
>      Bob
>      .
>
>      --
>
>
If the drive is seen as /dev/hdc, why do you then
say in grub.conf that it is hd1,0 ???
It should be hd2,0

Try it and see if that works.