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i got it to work, all i had to do was add the following to grub: title Windows at hdb1 rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 The XP drive was used on this computer but was taken out to copy files over to another computer (via a ide to usb converter), during that time i added another drive to my PC and installed FC5 on it and yes the Fedora drive is slave because i dont have a jumper for it and its default setting slave. So now have it working exacly how i want it to, the Fedora drive as the boot device. Leaving the boot.ini intact. both fedora and windows are fully working. with i XP i think u can have 3 major hardware changes before u need to reactivate and all u have to do is ring techsupport and tell them what has happened and they'll give a code. Thank you very much for helping

thank you your reply. I dont care which HDD the PC boots from aslong the XP drive has the NT loader, if i changed the bios to the xp can i use something like bootpart to add GRUB the to NT loader and would fedfora still boot if the boot order was chaged? or can i somehow add the NT loader to GRUB and if i did would XP still boot with the Fedora drive first prefence in the bios? or is there a way to pick whic HDD to boot from without entering to BIOS? I wouldn't normally install Fordora without windows drive but the windows drive was in another computer at the time. Thank you for helping

i currently have FC5 installed on my second harddrive(slave) and windows XP installed on my first harddrive. The BIOS is currently set boot from the second drive. I need help to add Windows XP to the grub bootloader on the second drive because the XP drive was disconnected during the FC5 installation. I want to leave my nt boot loader intect. Here is my current grub setup: # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hdb default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img could some kindly tell how to add XP to it? Thank you