Transporter and dual-boot XP Home/Pro

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Pogle

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I have two disks each with two NTFS partitions like this:

Disk 1
C: XP Home
D: Data
Disk 2
E: XP Pro
F: Data

I want to virtualise the XP Pro partition without any of the data so in Transporter I select only the first partition on Disk 2 but it comes back with:

"You have not selected the active volume or you haven't selected any volume with OS installed.
You can migrate the selected volume(s) as data volume(s).
Do you want to continue?"

There definitely is an OS on the volume. Although the drive letters aren't given the Used Space shows I've picked the right one.

What's going on?

[update]
Before posting, I checked and found that I get the same message whichever volume(s) are selected.
 
Update:

Using Transporter I got a .HDD file and created a new virtual PC from this.

However, when it boots it shows the old boot menu choices of XP Home and XP Professional.

Selecting XP Professional (as this is the partition I converted) I get this error:

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem"

I put in the XP installation disk to try to repair.
Using the Recovery console option I get a C: prompt but running DIR get the error:

"An error occured during directory enumeration"

If I select Install instead of "repair with recovery console" I don't get the "repair existing installation" option you would see if a previous installation exists.

From my limited understanding it seems like the boot menu can't locate the harddisk, perhaps because in the physical installation it was located on the second drive whereas in the virtual world it's all in the same drive.

Don't know where to go from here.
Any help gratefully accepted.
 
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