Friday, November 25, 2011

Fix Boot MBR in Vista

In Vista, the procedure to fix the master boot record is a bit different. You have to start up Vista in the Recovery Environment and then run the bootrec command. Here’s how.

1. First, load up the Windows Vista disc in your drive and press any key to boot from the disc.

2. Choose the language, time, currency, etc and click Next. Now click on Repair Your Computer.




3. Choose the operating system to repair and click Next. When the System Recovery Options dialog comes up, choose the Command Prompt.


4. Now type bootrec.exe and press Enter. This will rebuild the boot configuration data and hopefully fix your problem. You can also run the command with switches to fix just the master boot record (/fixmbr), the boot sector (/fixboot), or rebuild the entire BCD (/rebuildbcd).

If you are still having trouble with loading Windows, post a comment and I’ll see if I can help! Enjoy!

3 comments:

kaylenec said...

StartupRepairV2, won't boot
Hi there,
ACER laptop suddenly blue-screened with STOP 0X00000F4 and now won't do startuprepair either. It won't boot up in SafeMode and goes back to the blue-screen each time after trying to load windows - it gets to \Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys and then it bluescreens..with the stop 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x88DB4140, 0X88DB428C, 0X84C5AAB0)..

Any thoughts on what to try next? I don't have the install disks for Vista as I bought it second hand...

Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2
Problem Signature 01: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 02:6.0.6001.18000.6.001.18000
Problem Signature 03:5
Problem Signature 04:458759
Problem Signature 05:0xf4
Problem Signature 06:BadPatch
Problem Signature 07:0
Problem Signature 08:3
Problem Signature 09:WrpRepair
Problem Signature 10:10
OS Version:6.0.6001.2.1.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0
Windows directory = C:\Windows
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Root cause found:
Startup Repair has tried several times but still cannot determine the cause of hte problem.

Chkdsk /r and /f/ were run and came out with no problems.

I tried the bootrec.exe and it gives me various options like you said (/fixboot, /scanos). I tried /FixBoot but it still won't load. I also tried /RebuildBcd but it said "Successfully scanned Windows installatinos. Total identified Windows installations: 0. The operation completed successfully."
Any thoughts on what to try next?

Unknown said...

I don't see any operating system to choose on your step 3.

Unknown said...

Hi i've got an problem. I tried to install WLM But then i tried to install it it said that it could not download because its not an 32win program..? What am i supposed to do?.. visit more info Windows live mail support also Call +1-800-231-4635 (Toll Free).

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