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<blockquote data-quote="eengrms" data-source="post: 273434" data-attributes="member: 547046">What the hall are you talking about?&nbsp; The problem this guy is having is getting his computer to boot to WinXP.i3abyjay25 - Dude you cannot just put a hard drive with an OS on it into your computer and expect it to boot.&nbsp; The 3rd drive probably has an active partition on it, required to install XP, so it is conflicting with your active partition on your C drive.&nbsp; A big no-no, and that&#039;s probably why it keeps freezing.The only way to properly get this to work is to install XP onto the drive once it is installed in your computer, from inside of 2000, so XP can see you already have an OS and allow it to be set to a slave drive.&nbsp; Then within 2000 you need to have the boot manager let you select XP as a bootable OS.&nbsp; You also need to make sure all of your drives are FAT32 and not NTFS, as XP will have probelms installing onto an NTFS drive formatted in 2000.&nbsp; XP can work on an NTFS partition, but it has to make it or it has trouble reading it, at least for the install.You&#039;re in way over your head here.&nbsp; Just pick an OS and put it on your C drive and be done with it.&nbsp; Hope this helps...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eengrms, post: 273434, member: 547046"] What the hall are you talking about? The problem this guy is having is getting his computer to boot to WinXP. [B]i3abyjay25[/B] - Dude you cannot just put a hard drive with an OS on it into your computer and expect it to boot. The 3rd drive probably has an active partition on it, required to install XP, so it is conflicting with your active partition on your C drive. A big no-no, and that's probably why it keeps freezing. The only way to properly get this to work is to install XP onto the drive once it is installed in your computer, from inside of 2000, so XP can see you already have an OS and allow it to be set to a slave drive. Then within 2000 you need to have the boot manager let you select XP as a bootable OS. You also need to make sure all of your drives are FAT32 and not NTFS, as XP will have probelms installing onto an NTFS drive formatted in 2000. XP can work on an NTFS partition, but it has to make it or it has trouble reading it, at least for the install. You're in way over your head here. Just pick an OS and put it on your C drive and be done with it. Hope this helps... [/QUOTE]

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