Thanks for replying Jimbo45.
I am not sure I agree with your statement that I need to fix MBR...Vista OC is on the C: drive and that is were the boot loader is located.
Info on C: were Vista is ... Healthy, (Boot, Page file, Crash dump, Primary Partition) NTFS
Info on D: were XP is ... Healthy, (System, Active, Primary Partition) NTFS
You said--"what's happened here is that the partition you are trying to boot from is no longer an ACTIVE partition" Well let me give you some background. When I turn on the computer one the first few windows that open I get a choice to load XP or Vista. If I choose Vista then Vista will load. If I choose XP then XP will load. It's a dual boot configuration and it works great.
Again, Win 7 is gone"...erased, no were to be found.
So what I am trying to do now is no different than what I did back on January 2009. I have a CD with Windows 7 that I downloaded from Microsoft. I insert the CD in the tray and restart the computer. I boot from CD and it starts to load from the CD. It starts to load (I can see bar at bottom moving) but in less than a minute it stops and displays error 0xc00000e9.
My take is that CD is bad. It's only been used ones and it's NOT scratch so it's difficult to believe it's the CD.
I would like to get another copy of the ISO from Microsoft but it's no longer available...BTW, I am not going to any torrent sites to download it.
I am willing to hear what you have to say now. Have not tried Acronis