Boot sequence got out of order after I reset the board. Storage drive defaulted as 1st to boot for some unknown reason. Switched my main drive and now seems to boot normally. Saw in another thread from one of the links about that being a possibility of the problem. Spent about 2 hours for...
Found out there was no boot.ini for vista shortly ago so that explains that part. I've been running the startup repair a lot each time i have the install window up but still does nothing. No floppy, no external drives attached. Nothing attached but my monitor, headset, keyboard, mouse and...
My 8800 gt GPU died on me..so I ordered a 460 SC from EVGA. I install it, and first boot tells me "NTLDR is missing". Never has done this until I installed the new GPU. So on the laptop I research this and try all the fixes suggested including bootrec.exe /fixmbr...no good. /fixboot...no...