So, I RTFM and solved the problem. I don't know as much as I thought I did.
Thanks for the replies.

Peter Shkabara wrote:

>I assume that the BIOS recognizes and displays your hard drive as the boot
>device. So let's consider the XP options.
>
>Just to do some diagnostics, install a new copy of XP on the drive. Instead
>of replacing the existing installation, use a different name for the windows
>directory - use WINXP for example. Then see if it will boot properly or not.
>I know that this is time consuming, but sometimes it is worthwhile to learn
>what it is that is causing the problem. I just went through a new
>installation myself to fix the ills of my current install. Of course things
>did not go as expected! I do have a stable system now after doing the
>install twice.
>
>
>

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