i have...

20 gig HD: 2 partitions - C: Win98 D: XP Pro
40 gig HD 1 partition - G: XP Pro fresh install

just bought a new 7200 40 gig HD, so i stuck it
in as the secondary, installed XP Pro fine, and
i then got dual boot options for all three as
required. i wanted to install XP on the new drive
cos its obviously faster than my old one.

all was working fine until i had the not so clever
idea of moving a few cookies (within Win98) from
my old XP install to my new one. on booting up
from my latest XP install on G:, i now get

"system files corrupt or missing : system32/config/system"

ok, so i figured its a simple tale of repairing XP with the original CD, my PC set up to boot from CD and go through the repair motions.

on setup from the CD rom, it won't find my new
faulty XP install on G:, it just finds the old
working one on D: and offers to repair that.

new drive still seems to be working fine, and can
be read from within my other installed OS's.

any ideas?!