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[Rick Rogers]

Hi Bruce,

Actually, once you have a Vista disk to boot from, you should be able to run
the bootsec repairs in that article as you will be logged into that
installation after booting and loading the recovery console.

If all else fails, just install without formatting. The old installation
will be moved to a windows.old folder so that you can retrieve any data.
Programs would need to be reinstalled.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Bruce]

Rick,
Thank you for your time and assistance. I will let you know how it goes once
the new copy of Vista arrives. Got to love how MS increases sales ;>)
Bruce

 

[Rick Rogers]

I'd of just borrowed a friends disk and made a copy. Nothing illegal about
that.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Bruce]

Rick,
Since I last posted Acronis the people who make my backup software responded
to my request for assistance with an ISO file that I burned to disk and used
to boot and run their MBR creating program. After that when my Vista disk
arrived I booted with that. It said I needed to have something fixed, fixed
it, and now I am back up and running as if nothing happened. So I have an
unused new copy of Vista just to make me feel warm and fuzzy. The only things
I had to do to completely restore the machine to exactly how it was is to
have Vista re-establish the Network connection and realize that my old disk
J: has been renamed to disk F:
Again thanks for all your assistance and help. It seems that all I needed
was a MBR creation program that actually could re-create a completely new MBR
file.
Best regards,
Bruce