Need help with fixing boot problems

jpar63

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Just recently I was having some issues with a virus and I (Stupidly) changed my boot scenario in msconfig to a Diagnostic startup. Why this was stupid was because a while back I had had this system setup as a Dual Boot with Vista Ultimate 64 bit and Windows XP 32bit. The HDD containing XP had since been removed from the system and shelved. I can not, for the life of me, remember how I got it to work as just a plain Vista boot. The Dual Boot setup was a few Mobo's and many components ago, I simply forgot I had had it that way and didn't imagine it would come back to bite me. Anyhow, after selecting the "Diagnostic Startup" and rebooting, my system would not restart. After POST, I would get a No OS found/Winload.exe error. SO, I put in my Vista install disk hoping for an easy fix to the problem. To my dismay, my OS was not listed in the Recovery, in fact no os's were listed. After a day or so messing around with the Recovery Environment CMD prompt with no luck, I remembered about the Dual Boot setup. I found and plugged in the XP HDD and it worked! It used the NTLDR off that and gave me the Dual Boot options after POST. Now, I really do want this old HDD in my system, it screws with my drive paths for programs because being a system drive it reletters my other 500GB storage drive (I have 2 500GB drives, one is partitioned with Vista on it and the other is additional storage and programs). I am planning to get a solid state drive at some point and transfer my Vista OS to that, in the mean time I want to get rid of the XP. AS a note, and this may have something to do with my problems, the Vista is on a sepperate, secondary (at the end of the drive) partiton on one of my 500GB drives, not at the beginning, I don't know if this is an issue rewriting the MBR. This is all just so weird because I had it working perfectly for years, without even the smallest thought of the Dual Boot. Now it is totally screwing me. I have used EasyBCD to eliminate XP and supposedly rewrite the MBR for Vista. It's weird, everything looks fine, but I noticed that it still looks like it is saving those changes to the drive XP is on. When I browse the XP drive the D:/boot has a newer BCD file than my Vista C: drive. For some reason it is writing the new BCD info to that drive, eventhough I have my Vista marked as the Active drive and all the settings in EasyBCD point to the C:/ Vista drive as being the boot drive. I am afraid to try and reboot my machine because I took XP of the boot list and the current BCD files are on that D: drive. I'm really worried something funky might happen, I really can't do a fresh Vista install at this point. Any ideas? I have updates asking me to restart, but I don't want to try it. I have attached the detailed EasyBCD report.
 

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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Core i7 2700K
    Motherboard
    Asus P8Z86-V Pro Gen3
    Memory
    16BG Mushkin Radioactive
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia GeForce GTX670
    Sound Card
    ASUS XonarD2
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell 27" Ultrasharp 1080i HD
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