restoring osx/xp dualboot onto new hd

[Juz]

i've upgraded the 80gb hd in my macbook to a 160gb. i was running a bootcamp osx/xp setup with a 65gb hfs/15gb fat32 partition, so before removing the old drive i used the osx disk utility to backup both partitions to seperate drives via usb.

after putting the new drive in i created a 145gb hfs/15gb fat32 partition then firstly recovered the mac osx drive which now boots fine and everything is honky dory. however, i then restored the xp drive onto the fat32 partition, and rebooted but when i hold down alt it only offers me the option of booting into osx, no xp option to be seen.

i've tried running bootcamp assistant again from osx and that recognises that the drive has already been partitioned for an xp volume, but i don't think it recognises that xp i already installed on there.

is there a quick and simple way to restore the boot options so that i can hold down alt on power-up and select osx or xp again like previously? or am i going to have to use the bootcamp assistant to start xp over and reinstall it? please tell me there is a way i can avoid this!?

 

[Juz]

well just for reference i have now fixed the problem.

i ended up backing up any important stuff from the windows (fat32) partition and using bootcamp to reconsolodate the 2 partitions. but then upon trying to get bootcamp to recreate the partition and start the xp install a-fresh, it informed me it couldn't move some files necessary to create the xp partition. so i had to endure a 5 hour full defrag of the drive (guessing the drive image restoration didn't put everything back in an efficient way as possible?) then ran bootcamp again and this time it worked nicely. sped through the xp install in no time and then moved my stuff back over from the osx partition.

long winded but at least it did the job. and then afterwards i found a nice program called rEFIt which i'm certain would have done the trick without all this hassle, lol ahh well...