"ross m. greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:fGIui.1828$eO1.734@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> Last Friday evening by son, who uses my machine sometimes and to whom I
> erroneously gave administrator rights, I was removing a game he had
> previously installed for the game that manufacturer's uninstall. The game
> was an XP game. He should have gone through the control panel facilities
> to
> uninstall the game: for it trashed the partition entirely.
>
> This was a dual-boot machine: XP-pro on the C: drive, VISTA ultimate on
> the
> F: drive. An external USB drive had my backups, made as a cloned copy as
> my
> G: drive and my H: drive.
>
> Microsoft MSDN tech support had me reinstall vista. So my system now
> boots
> with either "an earlier version of Windows" or "vista" -- a clean copy of
> a
> vista.
>
> So I now have the ability to go to either XP or vista, but want to copy my
> G: backup drive a top of the F: drive, but I don't see any boot record on
> the G: drive, so I'm hesitant to simply do a clone-copy from the G: drive
> back to the F: drive.
>
> So all of my programs are stuck on the G: drive. What is the easiest way
> for me to get them back?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ross
>
Ross, when you dual boot XP and Vista, assuming you allowed Vista to create
the dual boot during its setup, the boot files are placed on XP partition.
You probably could bring your clone back to your F drive and it might see
the boot files on your XP partition. If it doesn't, you would boot from the
Vista DVD and run the repair option which should replace the boot files on
the XP Partition and make your formerly cloned Vista, dual boot aware.
I haven't done this quite this way but I did make images of Vista in a dual
boot scenario and had to do the above to restore my dual boot setup.
--
Michael Solomon
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