Thanx for your reply....as stated in the above message...I have tried this and it still will not boot. This is a brand new hard drive. My old drive with xp crashed....it has nothing to repair. Am I doomed? I wont give up on this. Any help out there would be greatly appreciated. Im willing to try or do anything to get vista on my system. Is there a boot disc I should download with the Boot mgr on it or what? I tried a xp boot disc ... but ...the fool I am realized that it was .exe...duhh....thats not going to self extract.....
Im confused.
RedTail