Facing a strange problem with Boot Manager

[Manish Jain]

Hi,

I have never had a problem with dual-booting Win XP and FreeBSD before. 
Generally, I install XP first and FreeBSD second, putting the Boot 
Manager to the MBR. Recently, my hard disk started wobbling and I had to 
replace it with a new Western Digital SATA drive.

When all installation work finished, FreeBSD would boot when I press F2 
but pressing F1 would fail to boot XP with the error :

"A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot"

Can anybody suggest what might be the problem and any possible solution ?

For the current time, I reversed the installation order and installed 
FreeBSD first. I saved the FFS slice's boot sector on a USB pendrive and 
then installed XP. So, for the time being, I have to use the Windows 
bootloader to boot FreeBSD by adding an entry for it boot.ini

My disk layout is as follows :

ad8s1 - NTFS
ad8s2 - FFS
ad8s3 - Extended (with ad8s5/NTFS as the only logical drive within it)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thank you &
-- 
Regards,

Manish Jain
bourne.identity at hotmail.com