[tomdkat]

One other thing to consider is an external USB HDD enclosure. If you're up for buying one of those, you could put the FAT32 drive in the enclosure, get the NTFS and 80GB drives dual-booting and then move the data from the FAT32 drive to the 80GB drive later, if at all.

If you're not up to buy an external enclosure, your plan sounds ok to me. Could someone else confirm?

Peace...

[shobuz99]

tomdkat,

I successfully intalled Ubuntu 8.04 over Ubuntu 6.06 on the 80GB drive.
I removed the windows XP drive (my C: 20GB, NTFS) and left the FAT32 drive alone.
I changed the boot order in BIOS and put the Ubuntu 8.04 image in the CDROM and went through the install...no problems. I'm using it now.
The next step is to copy all the data I need from the FAT32 drive to the new Ubuntu 80GB drive. Once I'm confident of that being done I want to shut down the machine, remove the FAT32 drive, put the NTFS drive in its place (slot) connect it up and reboot.
My only question is, do I leave the jumper setting on the NTFS drive as master or do I change it to slave? The instruction link you gave me (How to dual-boot Ubuntu and XP after installing them separately on two HDs) in a previous post, did not discuss that. I'm thinking that if I leave it as master, there will be a conflict and windows will ignore the Ubuntu drive...is that true?
(I can always remove the Ubuntu drive an replace it with the windows drive, to get back until I know what to do.)
I'm sorta at a crossroads here, if I want to follow through with the original plan.
Let me know.
Shobuz99

[tomdkat]

When you put the NTFS drive back in, jumper it as master and jumper the Ubuntu drive as a slave if they will be on the same IDE channel (sharing the same IDE cable). If the Ubuntu drive will be on a different IDE channel, it can be left jumpered as master.

Peace...

[shobuz99]

tomdkat,
Last night, I updated and added to the /boot/grub/menu.lst, the following:
title Windows XP Home
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
map (hd0), (hd1)
map (hd1), (hd0)
Then shutdown Ubuntu...

This morning I took a shot at it and attempted to do as you said.
I ran into two minor glitches:
1) The Ubuntu 80GB drive was already set to "cable select" on the jumper array (2nd position).
So I left it as is.
The first position was listed as Master and the 3rd and 4th position had no setting identity, anyway,
according to the diagram on the drive.

2) I re-installed to the case, the Windows XP NTFS drive and also left its jumper setting, since it was set to Master.
Then I powered on. I went to BIOS and changed the boot order so that
"hard disk" was first, then CDROM, etc.
Booted and got an error. I think it was Error 13. I didn't realize that
I needed to press 'Esc' to get the menu and then select.
Tried again, and selected the XP drive from the list. It would not boot...
Error 13. Then I restarted and went back into BIOS and noticed that the line " Boot OS2?" was set to NO. I changed it to YES.
Meanwhile...I had disconnected the Ubuntu drive (PANIC!).
Then I simply booted XP Windows no problem.
Now I need to add the Ubuntu drive back in and see if I can boot to that drive, by using the menu. If I can, I've done it!
If not, you'll be seeing a post from me later...wish me luck!
Shobuz99

[tomdkat]

The OS/2 entry in the BIOS is actually for OS/2, so that shouldn't have any bearing. I'm guessing it's the cable select on the Ubuntu drive that's causing issues. Try this, reconnect the Ubuntu drive as you had it connected before. Boot the system and go into the BIOS and see which drives are detected. See if the correct drive is detected as master AND that BOTH drives are detected.

Then, manually jumper the Ubuntu drive as slave and see what happens.

Peace...

[shobuz99]

Tomdkat,
Thanks to your help and continued support,
I was able to solve my problem.
It was a syntax error in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file

I had only one space between the map commands (middle parens)
and got an "Error 13 unrecognized device string"
wrong:
map (hd0,1) (hd1,0)

right:
map (hd0,1) . (hd1,0)

That did the trick. It's al good now.
Thank you very much!

Shobuz99