Ecat wrote:

Also in that D partition is the Boot folder and all its contents also from the same time last night. Sheesh. This install really got botched.

Actually thats not botched. Any Windows operating system will place its boot system files on the system drive/partition.

So are you done with me? Hope not.

All I want to do is get back to where I was. Conditions were:

1. XP and VistaB2 as my only two boot options.
2. Booting RTM required me to have the DVD in the drive and then it ignored the other two which booted into RTM without any options.

Here is the current BCD info read from Vista Boot Pro


Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=D:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {e42f7c0f-866c-11db-9bce-9511747c5f28}
nx OptIn
custom:47000005 301989892
3

Resume from Hibernate
---------------------
identifier {e42f7c0f-866c-11db-9bce-9511747c5f28}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale en-US
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
filepath \hiberfil.sys
pae Yes
debugoptionenabled No

Windows Memory Tester
---------------------
identifier {memdiag}
device partition=D:
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
custom:47000005 301989892
2

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Earlier Version of Windows
custom:47000005 301989892
6

EMS Settings
------------
identifier {emssettings}
bootems Yes

Debugger Settings
-----------------
identifier {dbgsettings}
debugtype Serial
debugport 1
baudrate 115200

RAM Defects
-----------
identifier {badmemory}

Global Settings
---------------
identifier {globalsettings}
inherit {dbgsettings}
{emssettings}
{badmemory}

Boot Loader Settings
--------------------
identifier {bootloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}

Resume Loader Settings
----------------------
identifier {resumeloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}


And here is the backup read from Vista Boot Pro


Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=E:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
resumeobject {50c73d4d-e6b3-11da-bc73-d30cdb1ce216}
displayorder {ntldr}
{default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 10

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device partition=E:
path \ntldr
description Earlier version of Windows

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=V:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=V:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {50c73d4d-e6b3-11da-bc73-d30cdb1ce216}
nx OptIn
quietboot Yes
Is this info usefull to get me back to where I was before I used VBP to change things?

I suggest you unplug your new drive for now and then run Startup repair from the Vista DVD if for some reason you cannot boot to either Vista or XP. That should get you back to the position you were in before you installed RTM Ecat