I am going to leave well enough alone for now. I will image the entire drive sector by sector to an external drive and do regular incremental backups. Since I use mostly portable apps and store almost everything on an external drive it is not a major inconvenience if problems arise later. A simple restore or I could even do a full clean install of both systems using my nLite and vLite install disks. My next adventure is placing the Outlook mail store and contacts on my external drive. Don P.S. Whatever happened to that wild and reckless maverick I used to know and love and hate? -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gman Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:16 AM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Velly Intwesting Nothing happens on 'its own', except for the bad things. lol Don't Move anything. Copy them to the XP drive and then 'hide' the originals in a new folder right where they are now. If this were two XP operating systems, I would then go into the boot.ini file and make sure both boot pointers are looking in the right places for the two OS's. Since this is BCD setup now, I have no clue how to double check that part. With that done, try booting into either OS. I suspect one will work and the other won't, but I can't quite get my head around which will be which. The answer will dictate the next move (perhaps running the EasyBCD utility will allow he easiest 'fix' at that point). On the other hand, it may just be best to leave well enough alone if it's allowing you to currently boot into both. :/ Peace, Gman --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------