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wort4712
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Thu May 25, 2006 12:44 pm |
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Hello,
i had to delete the windows boot loader (with Windows (XP) recovery console) after modifying the BCD with VistaBootPro (system did not boot anymore).
How to restore the Vista boot loader ?
Thanks
Wolfgang
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shreader
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Thu May 25, 2006 3:00 pm |
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Hey Wolfgang
Welcome to PROnetworks.
Now for your question.....
Install Vista again.
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imnuts
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Thu May 25, 2006 3:15 pm |
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Or you could try to use the startup recovery option when booting from the Vista DVD to see if it can possibly repair the Vista bootloader. I've heard of some success stories, others where it failed, but it would be quicker than a full reinstall if it works.
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wort4712
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Sat May 27, 2006 4:02 am |
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Hello,
i found a solution ... It's much easier...
On the original Microsoft DVD in the "boot" folder there is a program called "bootsect.exe".
run
bootsect.exe /nt60 c:
to restore the Vista bootloader.
run
bootsect.exe /nt52 c:
to restore the XP bootloader.
bootsect.exe /help shows all options .....
Wolfgang
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Sun May 28, 2006 10:57 am |
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Location: Monte-Carlo
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| wort4712 wrote: |
Hello,
i found a solution ... It's much easier...
On the original Microsoft DVD in the "boot" folder there is a program called "bootsect.exe".
run
bootsect.exe /nt60 c:
to restore the Vista bootloader.
run
bootsect.exe /nt52 c:
to restore the XP bootloader.
bootsect.exe /help shows all options .....
Wolfgang |
LOL I was just about to post exactly the same thing, that I found over at the AeroXP website, posted on May 5th over there  
Apparently a good trick is to copy the bootsect.exe into C: so that you can just run it from anywhere 
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Sun May 28, 2006 3:21 pm |
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Yes, the bootsect.exe command actually helped save my Vista bootloader/manager menu; Although WinRE (Booting from DVD) saved my 5381 installation, it also wiped out all of the \Boot directories and the Vista Bootloader, so I just ran bootsect.exe to recover from that
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animalboy1968
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Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:28 pm |
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hi guys, having earwigged on your posts & used a combo of the bootsect.exe and vistabootpro utilities, i have managed to rescue my vista 5384 & it now dual boots with xpsp2. it's taken most of the day but i've done. but i couldn't have done it without you guys...thank you so very much.
off to watch the england game now...C'MON THE BOYS!!!!!!
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gries818
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Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:40 pm |
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no problem - Thats what we designed the program to help with
Glad you got it working
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Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:06 pm |
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Zabu
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Thanks to all who replied to the thread. I ran bootsect off C: and that restored my Vista bootloader. I hope to visit this forum regularly from now on. Hopefully I can help as well as learn.
I have a 100GB drive on a laptop with a 50/50 split so I used Vista to partition off 12GB for Win XP and put the OS on there. The first thing I noticed how oddly XP behaved, the screen jerked, image looked awful. I suppose I expected things to proceed smoothly. I'm glad I recevered Vista. I'll wait for tomorrow to put XP in the loader.
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