Thanks so much, Mark.
Booting off the xp cd, with only the xp HDD connected, repaired the boot sector
and, now with both win 8 and xp HDD’S all well, and 8 partitions detected by system.
foolish of me not to have thought of it before!
regards,
Venkat
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