re: bootmgr missing --help pls
Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Carlie
(117 messages posted)
tried startup repair and fixboot and fixmbr commands and try to boot from hard disk
but get a blinking dos cursor in upper left corner. I found a forum post (without
clear solution) that describes exactly what I did:
"Okay. So apparently when you install Vista on a second partition with XP on the
first, Vista puts all the boot info on the XP partition!
So--without me knowing--I reformatted the XP partition and lost all the boot information."
except I did one more stupid thing, I not only formatted the XP partition, but I
combined it with the vista partition and "moved it to the left" using Gparted. So
now I have one big parition that I dont' even think has an MBR....
anyone know how to salvage this and boot into vista...I need my files! thanks
On Friday, August 7, 2009 at 2:42 pm, jvboy_17 wrote:
>Windows Vista:
>1. Boot from original DVD
>2. Select "Repair Your Computer"
>3. Under "Recovery Options" Type "Command Prompt"
>4. Key in: bootrec /fixboot and or bootrec /fixmbr
>
>Windows XP:
>1. Boot from original Disk
>2. Select "Recovery Console"
>3. key in: bootcfg /rebuild
>4. key in: fixboot and or fixmbr
>
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