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Windows Vista won't show after install of Windows 7 Pro 64bit - Acronis OS Selector

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I just recently installed Windows 7 Pro 64bit, on my system that had a working install of Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 32bit, along with Windows XP SP3 32bit. Each Windows install is on it own HDD and before I add Win7 (Win7-64b), WinVista (Local Volume (H:)) and WinXP (WinXP-32b) did not have ANY booting problems what so ever.

DD v11 (Update 2 build 11.0.2343)
OSS v11.0 (build 3,049)

When I installed Win7 I booted from the install DVD and the install went okay, I had a few issues when rebooting to continue the install of Win7. I did not change anything in DD/OSS and the Win7 install is working like it should.

Now I only have Win7 and WinXP working while my WinVista will NOT boot. I have tried a few things from themudcrab.com, specifically:
http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_oss_vistamanual.php
I have read http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_oss_understanding.php but I seem to have missed something. I understand what is said but either my WinVista boot is corrupt or ???

If any one could please take a look at my "Copy of bootwiz_ARW_original.txt" file that I'm having a problem with. I also include the manually modified "Copy of bootwiz_ARW_manual.txt" file I have tried to get my WinVista to boot from, with no luck. With the manual file that I modified from the original, it seems that any of "partitions > id###########" I put in OSS will boot to Win7 and not WinVista. I also include a screenshot (DDv11_screenshot_ARW_3-15-15.PNG) of what DD shows my drives to be too.

Any help would be greatly appericated!! If any more information is need please let me know.

Thanks

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Well I can't wait any longer, I will attempt to restore the original Windows (XP, Vista, 7) boot processes and see what happens.

I did another check of my system Win7, WinVista, WinXP and you will not believe what I found. My Windows Vista is not bootable because the "\Windows" folder contents has been DELETED somehow. I'm not saying that DD, OSS or TI did this but it was there when I installed Windows 7 64b SP1. I have also tried to recover the "\Windows" directory with a few recovery apps and ALL 3 can not find ANY files, and yes I ran all 3 as Admin. And even thru DOS and the folder is empty.

Thank goodness that my data is still there and I can just move that off the drive and format it.

If anyone has an idea I'm open.

Thanks!