So I do an fdisk /mbr to hopefully replace his master boot record, but this does nothing. Next, I used sys.com to copy the bootable files off of the startup diskette on the hard drive's boot sector.

I have 2 partitions on a 250gb drive. Somehow, during a XP reinstall, I ended up with a 10gb active partition for the OS and a 240gb logical drive C: for data. I recently tried out Vista and have ...