ross m. greenberg

> Hmm, not sure why there would have been a change from Vista F to Vista C but
> heck, if you get your setup going again, you can reinstall the apps if
> necessary. If you had to "fix" the XP in order to boot to it, that might be
> the reason for the change and the Vista repair might ultimately bring things
> back to where they were, meaning Vista F instead of C, but...no promises
> about that.:-)
>
> Anyway, yes, restore your clone back to the Vista partition. At the very
> worst, it won't boot, in fact I'm pretty sure it won't if you are able to
> boot to XP because the Vista dual boot changes the XP boo; files. Once you
> restore your clone, boot from the Vista DVD, run the repair and it will
> repair the Vista boot files located on XP and recreate your dual boot setup.


I was under the understanding that Vista likes to be the C: drive; the C: drive was my XP drive when I split the partition in two, and Vista on the second partition, the F: drive. I am under the understanding that the reinstallation Vista was almost automatically to the C: drive.

Unfortunately, more than a few of the apps I normally use that were on the F. drive are no longer available (manufacturer of business, etc.) -- so it is vital that he backed up files become entirely functional again.

So then you are indicating that I should copy my backup partition, which currently is not Vista bootable over my current Vista partition, and reboot onto the Vista DVD and go in to repair mode. This you are saying recover my dual-boot both to XP (on my C: drive) and onto Vista (as my F: drive)?

Sorry to be pedantic about this, but I only have one chance and don't want to screw up!

Ross