Error: User is an idiot.

[teyrnon]

Thanks to a really stupid move on my part I lost the wonderfully handy drive images I spent the better part of the evening making of the two drives. I zigged when I should have zagged. Order of steps is critical. Simply put I noticed the the boot record on the C: partition was corrupted so, instead of doing the smart thing and copied the image files to another hard disk, idiot that I am, I immediately set out to see if I could get proper boot records in place, including the MBR. Not only does the MBR contain the boot code it also has the partition table for the drive at the end of it.

ARGH!!!

Well, I still have the Microsoft backups of the system so all is not lost.