Hi, Bill.
I think I understand the situation now.
My PC came with one hard drive. That is my Master, it is not
partitioned, and it has XP Pro on it.
OK.
I took out that drive (temporarily) and put in another drive, jumpered
it as Master, and partitioned it, and installed 98 in the first partition,
and then XP Pro in the second partition.
So far, so good. You now have a single HD with both Win98 and WinXP,
dual-booting.
I then re-jumpered the partitioned drive as Slave, put the real Master
in as Master, connected the partitioned drive as Slave, and that's where
I stand (or sit, actually).
Whoops! Now you have your original HD with WinXP installed in its only
partition. You can boot to WinXP, but C:\boot.ini knows nothing of Win98 or
the other copy of WinXP. You should be able to SEE both partitions on the
second drive and USE them normally. With the proper edit of C:\boot.ini,
you probably could boot to that second copy of WinXP. IF C: is formatted
FAT32, you should be able to create a triple-boot situation with the single
copy of Win98 and the two copies of WinXP. If C: is formatted NTFS, though,
you can't do this because, no matter where Win98 is installed, it can't boot
unless the System Partition (Drive C
is FAT(16) or FAT32. In fact, Win98
can't even SEE a volume formatted NTFS.
The big question now is whether Drive C: (your Master) is formatted FAT32 or
NTFS. And the second big question is: How do you want to end up? Do you
want to boot Win98, WinXP & WinXP? Or some other combination.
Post back with that information and we probably can tell you how to get
there from here.
RC