Even MORE velly intwesting. I had copied all important stuff from the HP Data drive (the 500GB drive) in preparation for a reformat/partition to get rid of all the stuff from the great data drive fiasco that started this whole process. I just went to do the formar/partition and to my great surprise the data drive is now drive C: on physical disk 0. XP is drive E: and Vista is drive D:. Both on physical disk 1. I am now very hesitant to format/partition the data drive for fear it may delete file(s), such as ntldr or the MBR, that are required for the system to boot. I will recklessly investigate a bit while I await comments from the list. I may even reboot to Vista and use EasyBCD to rewrite the Vista boot. Don -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:29 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Velly Intwesting Not frustrating to me. I was all hyped up to do a clean install of Vista to get it back. I don't need to now. I'm a happy camper. I don't know how or why whatever happened happened, but I'm not frustrated over it. Don -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gman Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:05 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Velly Intwesting That is VERY interesting! Frustrating, too. Peace, Gman http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------