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Confirmed: writing this from XP. I realize that we all stand upon the shoulders of others, but very few present the necessary information as well as you have.

Thanks again!

I used E4 in your "Just Booting Tips" writeup to edit the XP boot.ini file, adding linux to the Operating Systems area. E4 was suprisingly easy :)

I'm currently typing this from Debian and, as I...

Awesome. I'll have a look through the posts in your sig and let you know if I have problems or success.

thanks!

Current state:

I've got WinXP up and running, Debian installed in a second partition. Only problem is that GRUB doesn't start up and therefore, I can't boot Debian. Is there a way to get Debian...

Thanks very much. I'll first try removing everything but the WinXP... if that doesn't work, I'll re-install Debian onto 1 partition (home, swap, etc, all on the same partition) so as to simplify...

Not sure if this changes your recommendation at all, but GParted seems to feel that sda3 is a "parent" partition of sda5 and 6:
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Unfortunately, I've tried that as well. No error messages (except for the same "Filesystem type unknown...") and it hangs right after the "boot" command.

Long story short, I can boot to Debian but not WinXP. Long story follows...

It's been about 4 days since I installed Debian amd64 Lenny and 4 days since I was able to boot to WinXP. I've spent...