Okay, I have a PATA drive and a SATA drive. On the SATA drive are 2 NTFS partitions. One is Windows XP SP2. The PATA drive is there for installing different Linux distro's and playing around with that OS as I try to figure out which one I might want to dive into.

I installed Ubuntu 6.10 on the PATA drive and when I set my BIOS to look at the PATA drive first I get a boot menu where I can select Windows XP if I want to go there and everything boots fine. If I set my BIOS back to looking at the SATA drive first I don't even get the menu - it just boots straight into Windows XP. That's perfect and how I want it.

I removed my Ubuntu PATA drive and installed another PATA drive so I could install Freespire 1.0.13. Everything went well but I found that when I changed the BIOS setting to look at the SATA drive first and only boot from there, offering no boot menu which is what I wanted, I get the Freespire boot menu. So this is different from how the Ubuntu setup works and it's a small problem. Sometimes I'll remote into my XP machine and need to reboot. Now I can't do that and get back into XP because the Freespire boot menu comes up even when the SATA drive is the first hard drive to boot from in the list in my BIOS.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I haven't yet simply disconnected the PATA drive with Freespire on it to see if that's all that needs to be done. I can definitely do that and let you know what happens if that's the first step. I only just now thought of it (duh). Let me know what you all think. Thanks.