[oclug] hard drive problem

[Allan]

I just installed a new larger hard drive, initially setting it up as a slave 
drive.  After much trial and error, I managed to copy my existing partitions 
to larger partitions on the new drive.  I now have two hard disks with 
identical configurations except that the partitions are all larger on the new 
drive.  I then made the new drive the master and changed the old drive to 
slave.  Using my SuSE boot cd, I then booted the new Linux partition and 
re-installed grub.  So far so good.

Now for the problems.  If I remove the slave (old) drive my bios doesn't 
recognize the new drive.  If I re-install the slave, the bios recognizes the 
new drive as the master and the old one as the slave, exactly as I expected.

Despite the fact the grub points to an XP partition on my new drive, XP 
insists on booting from the slave (old) drive.  If I hide the XP partition on 
the slave drive, grub loads XP from the new drive but XP then quits and 
reboots because it can't find some program whose name I forget.

Does anyone have any idea what MS has done to my system?  When my old hard 
drive dies will I be left with a non-working system?

I know, I know this may seem off topic, but I use Linux 95% of the time, only 
rebooting into Windows when I want to use a webcam which doesn't work under 
Linux to talk to and see my grand-children.