hi mr wilson ive been trying to install winxp on my usb drive connected to my labtop it was a in desck top it has all my data on and i want run xp with destroying vista i got all the way to where u have to perform recovery options. i thought the xp installation change my files but i found what rellied happend when i found your tutorial. the problem i have now is i cant get the ntldr to point to my xp os on my drive. i tried putting the drive letter in path options of bcdedit but the bootloader cant find my xp partion.

Im using vista home on a toshiba satelite. my ide hard drive is in a maddog ide to usb enclosure. thx