[cat rancher]

Thanks for the help but nothing worked. So I
tried restoring the boot drive and restoring the
2nd drive in multi-boot with Drive Image.

The funny thing was that before I tried this
when I typed boot.ini at the command prompt
to edit boot.ini it had different values than
when I typed msconfig and went to the boot.ini
tab ... weird

I still don't know which one was valid or if one
was reading from the drive(0) and the other from
drive(1)