Boot Camp moved from MacPro1,1 to MacPro5.1...

I have a Maxtor serial ATA hard drive which I put into my MacPro1,1 when I got it years ago, partitioned it with Boot Camp back then, and installed Windows XP Pro 32 bit on it (the other partition was a backup boot partition for Leopard). Over the intervening years, I'd kept Boot Camp updated as I moved from Tiger to Leopard to Snow Leopard.
So I got a new MacPro5,1 and removed this hard drive, placing it into the new Mac Pro.
Here's the thing:
The BOOTCAMP volume does not appear anywhere in the Finder, even though the other partition ("Leopard") does.
I can launch Disk Utility and see the physical drive and it's 2 partitions; the BOOTCAMP partition is greyed out, of course, since it is NOT mounted. I can click on the BOOTCAMP partition in the listing, and see that it is "not mounted", and it is formatted as "Windows NT File System (NTFS)" and that it is 33.46GB in size. If I click the "Mount" button, I get an error message:
MOUNT FAILED
The disk “BOOTCAMP” could not be mounted.
Try running First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting.
Running Repair on the volume does nothing - no report of errors...
I can open System Preferences, select the Startup Disk preference pane, and the BOOTCAMP volume is not listed.
So - seems like I'm dead in the water. However, if I reboot holding the "option" key down, BEHOLD, the BOOTCAMP volume is there in the bootpicker screen, can be selected, and will boot to XP just fine. I did run the Bootcamp updaters after getting booted into XP, that went fine. Rebboting back into Snow Leopard was no problem.
OK, so what's the problem? I need to be able access that NTFS volume from the Mac OS. *sigh* Any insights?
Thanks,
Andrew

An update-
I did a repartition on another of the drives in my tower, then used Boot Camp Assistant to create an NTFS partition on it; this partition showed up on the desktop just fine. Then I used WinClone to image the existing Boot Camp partition, and then I restored the image to the new Boot Camp partition. And guess what - that partition now will not mount either.
*sigh*
Andrew

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hotwheels 22 wrote:
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F. i guess if i want to make sure to retain a true boot camp install of the Windows XP install i have to repair the 2006 machine is that right?
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