<html><div style='background-color:'>I read somewhere that windows wants to be booted from the first drive and that it wont work if it isnt. It just a guess but anyway. the olution to the problem was to put in these 2 lines after title= in grub.conf(menu.lst?) if you are using grub. map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) I noticed now that you also are missing one line. between roonoverify (hd1,0) and chainloader +1. it should stand makeactive, making the conf look like this:  title=Windows XP map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) rootnoverify (hd0,0) # maybe (hd1,0)? makeactive chainloader +1 Hope it helps <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:10:33 +1000 thanks fredric for answering windows version is xp home on the 80gb sata drive fc4 is in volume with a boot and / on the 40gb if you require other info please explain how to achieve it thanks, fairly new to linux david On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:06 +0200, Fredric Johansson wrote: > > How does your partition scheme look like and what version of windows > do you have? > > > > >Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:26:56 +1000 > > >hi all > >have just loaded fc4 onto a 40gb ide drive which is drive 0 > >windows was installed on a sata 80gb and working well > >now the error i get is > >booting Â´windowsÂ´ > >rootnoverify (hd1, 0) > >chainloader +1 > >any idea how to solve this? > >thanks > >david > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>