I have been running windows xp for about a year now and I decided I wanted to play around with Red Hat 7.3 I replaced my hard drive containing xp with an old one I had laying around and installed RedHat. I then decided I wanted to try and set up a dual boot using the Linux Grub. I reinstalled my XP hard drive as the primary slave. I messed around trying to get XP to boot from grub, but I was unsuccessful. I then removed the RedHat drive and placed my hard drive as the primary master again. Now when I try and boot I get the blue screen moments after I see the XP boot splash screen. I tried booting with the XP CD but I received the blue screen immediately after it says loading windows. I can't get to the repair console. I removed the XP hard drive and replaced it with another hard drive and I can get to the repair/setup screen fine (no blue screen). The blue screen states that there was a problem with a plug-and-play driver. My best guess is that in the process of doing everything I somehow messed up the boot record. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm using NTFS. I'm a little afraid that if I installed XP on another hard drive so that I could access my partition to retrieve data that I would still receive the blue screen on boot when the XP hard drive is reinstalled in my system. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Try reinstating the MBR with a Win 98 boot floppy. Type fdsik/mbr at the A:> prompt - it won't be affected by NTFS.

Try reinstating the MBR with a Win 98 boot floppy. Type fdsik/mbr at the A:> prompt - it won't be affected by NTFS.