Quote Originally Posted by 'Shigan5',index.php?page=Thread&postID=47297#post4 7297
As for the boot issue. You never want to have two OS's on the same harddrive UNLESS they are on seperate partitions. Otherwise you get boot issues.
Thanks for the reply Shigan. I learned this the hard way (not being a very hardware oriented guy, as I'm a programmer). In lieu of the knowledge required to do things properly, what I ended up doing was unhooking my other two drives, repairing vista to get the boot files on it fixed. Then unhooking it and hooking up another drive to put xp on.

It's very ghetto and hacked together, but it worked for my purposes. I don't get the dual boot menu so I have to actually go into the boot menu and pick the hard drive what i want to boot up is on.