yes, it certainly had a lot or everthing to do with it.
That product is now on my scrap heap.
The Mini Tool lives.
BTW: I did not bother, and will not, to re-letter the drives/partitions - no need...

Well I ran the Macrium "fix Windows startup" utility.
Lo and behold it found Longhorn as 1 of the 3.
I let them all be kept.
Restarted.
Magic. "the old Windows moving bar in Vista" - it went by...

Do you still recommend this ?
"However, if it was created using Macrium Reflect Free fix windows start up problems utility, then you can rerun that utility (by booting from the recovery USB/DVD) and...

It's no too bad once it gets going. Internet access is acceptable, but a bit slow.
But booting take ages. For example, the old Windows moving bar in Vista must go bay 40 or 50 times instead of 4 or...

BIG MISTAKE !!!
Should not have deleted that Longhorn from "boot" with MSCONFIG (in Win 10).
The machine (laptop) is now back to it's crawling ways of Saturday.
Take forever to bbot or do...

Well, that's it. Goal accomplished !!
Windows 10 installed sucessfully as the 2nd OS on the laptop.

And I deleted the beef - old Longhorn. I see that was the original intended name for Vista.
...

Beyond, way beyond, this little issue here, I have to thank you for something much bigger and more important: for serving our country as a Lieutenant Commander.

Great, thanks.
What a long journey !
I was nosing around and I see that the 500 MB partition is in use now - by Vista, obviously.

Yes couple of reboorts and magic, it's as good as - and I...

Guess what.
I'm coming to you from the laptop.
I turned on the laptop today and all is fine. I got to your site in seconds.
"What a diffrence a day makes".

RE: Option Two:
I have attached a...

Oh, I ran into one other obstacle. The Win1058.... DVD somehow gave me all sort of problems this time. Thank God I burned 2 copies on 2 disks. I won't get into the details, since I got the 2nd one...

Option One could not be done. Mini Tool would not allow it.
The below excerpt from it's tutuorial on "Set a Partition as Primary" explains it - I had the condtion in #2, as you can see from the...

RE: "or another option, just install Windows 10 to the unallocated space, and then we can add Windows Vista back to the boot menu, but I would try the first suggestion first. It would probably be...

RE: "Boot from the recovery DVD again. Run Macrium Reflect. Under the restore menu is a utility to fix windows startup problems. Run that utility, see if that fixes your boot problem. You can...

We have a problem !!
I took a new full backup before the Moni Tool.

I then did all 4 recommeded actions in single Mini Tool session:

Moved C to the right of the 40GB unallocated
Moved D to...

Well, we are finally geting somewhere.
I took your first instructions; namely, to "burn disk image" to a DVD from the download in Win 10 on the desktop.
But, thanks for the info on Roxio - I'm...

I got back to the task this afternoon.
Download reports:

Tried to a "data" CD with Vista on the desktop. After a long time and a high %, I got "this file could not be downlaoded" and no reason....

Sorry, but I have a question or 2 regarding "Kyhi's recovery tools"

It looks like this is only for Win 10 or Win 8.1. But it will have to run on Win Vista on the laptop for me to do the work...

Hi,

By the way, thanks for the education on "partitions" and "drives".

I could only get back to this now. Sorry for any delay.
Let me give you a status.

I deleted the 31MB EISA partition in...

Yes, I understand that I cannot "upgrade" from Vista.

I do not recall if I mentioned at the start that I was able to install Win 10, from the USB stick, as a "custom" install on my desktop with no...

Again. thank you NavyLCDR.

For what it is worth here is a screenshot from Acronis of the current state - no changes since the DiskManagment screenshot yesterday have been done.

I have the...

We really need to see a screenshot of disk management:
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of - Windows 10 Forums

And please expand the columns so we can see the information in them...

The tutorial was great - it (along with "How to Dual Boot Windows 10...") helped me tremendously in getting Windows 10 to install properly as a second operating sytem (old Vista being the 1st) on my...