"ross m. greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:bR5vi.541$uh7.339@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>
>> 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
>
>
It's been awhile since I dual booted XP and Vista so I don't fully recall
about the drives. My, "Hmm" had more to do with why it changed or did I
misunderstand?
If it does change to something not recognized by your installed apps, you
might be able to use Disk Management to change the drive to what you want or
need.
I'm not sure if Vista will let you copy a partition over it but Ghost will
allow you to restore the Ghost image. If that is want you meant by copy,
then, yes. If not, you used Ghost to clone the drive to the USB drive or
I'm assuming that is the case? If you did use Ghost for that purpose, then
use Ghost go bring it back to your current Vista partition.
--
Michael Solomon
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