I'm a newbie, so please forgive me. I am an XP user but wanted to try Vista. I bought a retail copy of Vista Ultimate. I used the latest copy of Acronis Disk Director to create a second partition on my Sony Vaio. I then installed Vista on that partition. So far, no problems. The bootloader appears to be on the XP drive. While trying to get the proper drivers installed on Vista, the hard drive got corrupted, rendering it useless. I chose to delete the partition with Acronis. My XP partition is back to the normal size (I used Acronis to get it back). But the bootloader remains. I have a continued option to select Windows Vista (which of course is not there). How do I get rid of this option and boot directly into XP? It would seem that the XP MBR is hosed in some way. I understand that Vista no longer uses boot.ini. I don't think I want to proliferate the problem by re-installing Vista. I believe that I will just go out and buy a new notebook with Vista pre-installed. But I would like to fix my current XP installation. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance to any responders.
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