BCDEdit.exe cannot add an OS.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gomez Addams
(24 messages posted)
Hey! I have a dual boot XP/Vista system that recently broke. It has a single NTFS
HDD w/ three partitions. Part. 1 is Vista, Part. 2 is XP, and Part. 3 is general
storage.
This setup has been working for over a year now. Today, I had some spyware and ran
ComboFix to remove it. In doing so, I broke the Windows Boot Loader. I couldn't load
any operating system; I couldn't load the boot loader! I think it was giving me error
7, or something like that. I launched the Vista DVD, ran the recovery tools, and
booted into Vista just fine, but I lost the XP entry in the boot loader, and now
I can't get it back.
After the recovery, BCDEdit displayed the following:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=D:
path \bootmgr
description Windows Boot Manager
default {current}
displayorder {current}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\System32\winload.exe
description Windows Vista (TM) enterprise (recovered)
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {af3224a9-9cc9-11de-90df-806e6f6e6963}
I ran the following commands:
bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "Earlier Windows OS Loader"
bcdedit /set {ntldr} path ntldr
bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=D:
and all of the operations were completed successfully, but the output of BCDEdit
hasn't changed. It's still exactly the same as just after the recovery. If I run
the /create command again, I get a message saying that "The specified entry already
exists."
All of the files on all of the partitions are intact. I can view them just fine in
Vista. It seems the only problem is that I can't add the XP OS to Vista's boot loader.
I would appreciate your assistance with this problem. Thanks!
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