GRUB not booting windows?

Hi, I installed Arch a few days ago, and despite me being a pretty big linux newb I'm loving the distro. I've only gotten very minor problems with it, but this is really the only one I need to fix soon.
When I boot and GRUB asks me which OS to boot up, it detects both arch and windows, but when I try to boot windows it displays...
booting 'Windows'
# (2) windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
On the screen. My windows partition is on sda1, so (hd0,0) is the correct path, but it just gets stuck on that screen and after outputting the code from /boot/grub/menu.lst file it just stops doing anything.
Help?

hokstein wrote:
I'm having exactly the same problem. This is the second time I've installed Arch, and the other time I had the same problem as well. My Grub entry looks just like the ones above:
# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
As the OP said, grub just prints this entry on the screen and sits there. No real error message.
Someone sugested that maybe Windows is picky about having another bootloader in the MBR. Maybe, but I also had grub on the MBR on my Debian instalation and I still could boot Windows there. I have Linux and Windows installed on diferent drives, Windows being in a single-partition SATA drive.
Any ideas?
Windows can only boot directly from the 1st hdd.
As you have rootnoverify (hd1,0) it seems you have the windows drive as SECOND hdd in your system.
Fortunately grub has a map command that can be used to switch the order of drives
Try putting the lines below in your menu.lst (the 2 map commands make windows believe the drive it's installed on is the first hdd.)
# (3) Windows
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
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Tried using an external USB with w7 in and changing USB DVD Drive to 1st boot in the bios
None of which works.
Any further ideas would be appreciated.

Double check that the S-ATA controller for the port you are using the ODD in is enabled, & the mode is set. Try the ODD in a different port that uses a different controller. Double check the power connection to the drive. Try a different S-ATA cable.

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