Windows Vista Bootsector
- How to restore vista MBR without vista disc (2 posts). After you boot into the Windows Recovery Environment (RE), you should run the bootrec.exe command.
- How to Fix MBR in Windows XP and Vista. Note that you may also want to run the fixboot command to repair the boot sector. Load up the Windows Vista disc in.
Johnathan1357, Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Answers community forum. We will need a little more information to be able to better help you resolve your issue. When you installed the second hard drive, were you trying to setup a dual boot system with two different operating systems? When you installed the second drive, did you format and partition it from within Vista? Did the second drive you installed already have a version of Windows installed on it and if so what version? Do you have your boot order setup in BIOS to boot only from your primary system drive?
The /FixBoot option writes a new boot sector to the system partition by using a boot sector that is compatible with Windows Vista. Use this option if one of the following conditions is true. * The boot sector has been replaced with a non-standard Windows Vista boot sector. * The boot sector is damaged.
Do you get a boot order option when booting, and if so, can you boot from either drive or just the second drive? Are you getting any error messages when you try to boot and if so what are those error messages? Here is a link to some information that might help you fix this issue: Error message when you start Windows Vista: 'The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information' Let us know the answers to these questions and we will be better able to assist you. Thank you, Gloria Microsoft Answers Support Engineer Visit our and let us know what you think.
Windows Xp
I used a disk partitioning utility to copy a Vista boot disk to a larger disk. When that was done, I was greeted with an error regarding winload.exe. A couple of web searches later I figured that Bootrec /FixBoot is likely to fix this problem. That's where the problems started.
I tried to boot from a Vista SP1 DVD (I don't have anything later). It took a long very long time (probably because of AHCI enabled in the BIOS), and finally I selected repair, at which point it took more time, and finally presented me with a Vista partition I didn't want to repair.
Windows Vista Boot Sector Repair
When I tried to recover that, in the hope that I'd be able to get to the console, I got told that the version isn't compatible. There are three Vista partitions on three disks, and I can remove two and hopefully get the install DVD to fix the right one, since it did offer to fix the boot manager (though not the way I wanted). I'll try this if I don't get a good answer, but is there a way to just run the fix without going through the install DVD? Any 3rd party utility or something built into Windows that can fix a particular disk?
Windows Vista Boot Torrent
Hi, Try Startup Repair - This tells you how to access the System Recovery Options and/or use a Vista Disk Try StartUp Repair from Recovery Options or Vista disk.