Hi folks,
I have done quite a bit of searching and testing on this one.  Some people have a 
problem close to mine, and others who have asked in the past few months received 
either incomplete information or no answer at all.

I recently loaded Vista 64 upgrade on a new SATA drive.  I like it, it works for 
me and I now want to uninstall XP Pro on my old IATA drive and use it as a storage 
drive.
Of course I ran into the bootlog problem.  The bootlog is on my old drive.  Vista 
will not let me format the drive with the bootlog on it, and won't allow me to copy 
the boot data from XP.  If I go into XP and copy them myself and put them into Vista, 
vista ignores the info and reboots the same way.  if I unplug the old drive my pc 
doesn't recognize me having ANY installed o/s, and if I try to repair or reinstall 
Vista it just keeps telling me I need to have a 'genuine windows operating system' 
installed. 
Until I plug the IATA back in and we're back to square one.

How do I get those boot files for Vista off of the XP drive and onto my new SATA 
drive without reinstalling both XP Pro and Vista?

Any help regarding this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Benny

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