fixboot command needed

Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message

Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

Then you need to use BCDedit. It is not intuitive. You may also use VistaBootPro which does have a graphical front end. http://www.vistabootpro.org/intro.php
"Joe727" wrote in message

Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

I have VistaBootPro - the question is, how do I boot to Vista if it doesn't appear on my selection screen at boot up?
It's the same wth BCDedit. It only works in Vista as far as I know.
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Then you need to use BCDedit. It is not intuitive. You may also use VistaBootPro which does have a graphical front end. http://www.vistabootpro.org/intro.php
"Joe727" wrote in message Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

Not true. It works fine from XP.
"Joe727" wrote in message

I have VistaBootPro - the question is, how do I boot to Vista if it doesn't appear on my selection screen at boot up?
It's the same wth BCDedit. It only works in Vista as far as I know.
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Then you need to use BCDedit. It is not intuitive. You may also use VistaBootPro which does have a graphical front end. http://www.vistabootpro.org/intro.php
"Joe727" wrote in message Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

"Joe727" wrote in: %23HHM539mGHA.4216@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe ---------------------------------------------

You can use bootrec /fixboot or bootrec /fixmbr in the "command prompt" of the DVD :
Boot on the Vista DVD. Choose country. Next. Choose keyboard. Next. Don't choose "install now" but "system recovery options" . If it is proposed to repair at the end of the search, answer "no". Deselect all lines and clic "next" Choose "command prompt" Type bootrec /? to access the bootrec help A usefull command is also : bootrec /rebuildbcd
Yours sincerely Georges Jullien

Joe--Precisely what did you try? I'm hearing "tried those options" the same way I have heard for 7 years "tried Safe Mode in XP: when people have in fact tried one Safe mode option instead of the four they should try since one may work. Did you try all 3 options 1) Startup Repair and 2) System Restore after clicking into System Recovery Options from setup?
CH

"Joe727" wrote in message

Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

There are five repair options IIRC, on the Vista repair screen. I don't remember all the names. I am talking about booting to Vista, not XP.
I tried all of them, including System Restore, which did not work.
Joe
"Chad Harris" <Bushisamoron.net> wrote in message

Joe--Precisely what did you try? I'm hearing "tried those options" the same way I have heard for 7 years "tried Safe Mode in XP: when people have in fact tried one Safe mode option instead of the four they should try since one may work. Did you try all 3 options 1) Startup Repair and 2) System Restore after clicking into System Recovery Options from setup?
CH

"Joe727" wrote in message Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

OIC - thanks for that info.
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Not true. It works fine from XP.
"Joe727" wrote in message I have VistaBootPro - the question is, how do I boot to Vista if it doesn't appear on my selection screen at boot up?
It's the same wth BCDedit. It only works in Vista as far as I know.
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Then you need to use BCDedit. It is not intuitive. You may also use VistaBootPro which does have a graphical front end. http://www.vistabootpro.org/intro.php
"Joe727" wrote in message Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

"Georges Jullien" wrote in message

"Joe727" wrote in: %23HHM539mGHA.4216@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe ---------------------------------------------
You can use bootrec /fixboot or bootrec /fixmbr in the "command prompt" of the DVD :
Boot on the Vista DVD. Choose country. Next. Choose keyboard. Next. Don't choose "install now" but "system recovery options" . If it is proposed to repair at the end of the search, answer "no". Deselect all lines and clic "next" Choose "command prompt" Type bootrec /? to access the bootrec help A usefull command is also : bootrec /rebuildbcd
Yours sincerely Georges Jullien

Thanks for the information. However, for some unknown reason, the System Recovery Options interface is reporting that my Vista installation is on partition J instead of partition N. Drive J is actually on my second hard drive.
98SE is on partition E drive 1 / XP Pro on partition F drive 1 / Vista on partition N drive 1 / Boot Loaders on Partition C drive 1 which of course is the Windows default. F & N are NTFS. C & E are FAT32.
I ran the bootrec /rebuildbcd and the bootrec /fixboot, but neither worked. In fact, I had to install the XP Retail CD and use the Recovery Console to run fixboot in order to boot into XP.
Any other suggestions other than reinstall Vista?
Joe

Update - VistaBootPro doesn't repair the boot loader. Their website says that funtion will be in their next release.
I couldn't get BCDedit or BCDedit.exe to work in a command prompt in XP Pro.
Joe
"Joe727" wrote in message

OIC - thanks for that info.
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Not true. It works fine from XP.
"Joe727" wrote in message I have VistaBootPro - the question is, how do I boot to Vista if it doesn't appear on my selection screen at boot up?
It's the same wth BCDedit. It only works in Vista as far as I know.
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Then you need to use BCDedit. It is not intuitive. You may also use VistaBootPro which does have a graphical front end. http://www.vistabootpro.org/intro.php
"Joe727" wrote in message Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

"Joe727" wrote in message

There are five repair options IIRC, on the Vista repair screen. I don't remember all the names. I am talking about booting to Vista, not XP.
I tried all of them, including System Restore, which did not work.

Hey, Joe. Not sure if this would help you, shouldn't hurt.
I ran Acronis from XP after Vista's install to give Vista more space. I ended up not being able to boot to Vista. "Couldn't find winload.exe" was the error. I tried this, it worked.
Accessing bootsect.exe from the DVD via XP, I ran the cmd "d:\boot\bootsect /nt60 F:"
"F" being my Vista volume as seen by XP.
-Michael

As a last resort boot to the Windows 98 boot disk (floppy) choose no cdrom support and at the command prompt A: type in fdisk/mbr this should restore the mbr. This has saved my skin many times over. "Joe727" wrote in message

"Georges Jullien" wrote in message
"Joe727" wrote in: %23HHM539mGHA.4216@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe ---------------------------------------------
You can use bootrec /fixboot or bootrec /fixmbr in the "command prompt" of the DVD :
Boot on the Vista DVD. Choose country. Next. Choose keyboard. Next. Don't choose "install now" but "system recovery options" . If it is proposed to repair at the end of the search, answer "no". Deselect all lines and clic "next" Choose "command prompt" Type bootrec /? to access the bootrec help A usefull command is also : bootrec /rebuildbcd
Yours sincerely Georges Jullien
Thanks for the information. However, for some unknown reason, the System Recovery Options interface is reporting that my Vista installation is on partition J instead of partition N. Drive J is actually on my second hard drive.
98SE is on partition E drive 1 / XP Pro on partition F drive 1 / Vista on partition N drive 1 / Boot Loaders on Partition C drive 1 which of course is the Windows default. F & N are NTFS. C & E are FAT32.
I ran the bootrec /rebuildbcd and the bootrec /fixboot, but neither worked. In fact, I had to install the XP Retail CD and use the Recovery Console to run fixboot in order to boot into XP.
Any other suggestions other than reinstall Vista?
Joe

"MICHAEL" wrote in message

"Joe727" wrote in message There are five repair options IIRC, on the Vista repair screen. I don't remember all the names. I am talking about booting to Vista, not XP.
I tried all of them, including System Restore, which did not work.
Hey, Joe. Not sure if this would help you, shouldn't hurt.
I ran Acronis from XP after Vista's install to give Vista more space. I ended up not being able to boot to Vista. "Couldn't find winload.exe" was the error. I tried this, it worked.
Accessing bootsect.exe from the DVD via XP, I ran the cmd "d:\boot\bootsect /nt60 F:" "F" being my Vista volume as seen by XP.
-Michael

Hi Michael - thanks for posting. I had to make an assumption about your drive/partition letters. I assume D is your DVD drive and F is where Vista is installed.
L is my DVD drive and N is where Vista is installed. F is where XP is installed.
I ran L:\boot\bootsect /nt60 N: - I got a confirmation that the boot was fixed but the Vista boot loader did not appear on reboot.
Joe

"Joe727" wrote in message

"MICHAEL" wrote in message "Joe727" wrote in message There are five repair options IIRC, on the Vista repair screen. I don't remember all the names. I am talking about booting to Vista, not XP.
I tried all of them, including System Restore, which did not work.
Hey, Joe. Not sure if this would help you, shouldn't hurt.
I ran Acronis from XP after Vista's install to give Vista more space. I ended up not being able to boot to Vista. "Couldn't find winload.exe" was the error. I tried this, it worked.
Accessing bootsect.exe from the DVD via XP, I ran the cmd "d:\boot\bootsect /nt60 F:" "F" being my Vista volume as seen by XP.
-Michael
Hi Michael - thanks for posting. I had to make an assumption about your drive/partition letters. I assume D is your DVD drive and F is where Vista is installed.
L is my DVD drive and N is where Vista is installed. F is where XP is installed.
I ran L:\boot\bootsect /nt60 N: - I got a confirmation that the boot was fixed but the Vista boot loader did not appear on reboot.

Your assumptions were correct. Sorry it didn't work.
Hope you figure it out.
Take care,
Michael

"MICHAEL" wrote in message

"Joe727" wrote in message
"MICHAEL" wrote in message "Joe727" wrote in message There are five repair options IIRC, on the Vista repair screen. I don't remember all the names. I am talking about booting to Vista, not XP.
I tried all of them, including System Restore, which did not work.
Hey, Joe. Not sure if this would help you, shouldn't hurt.
I ran Acronis from XP after Vista's install to give Vista more space. I ended up not being able to boot to Vista. "Couldn't find winload.exe" was the error. I tried this, it worked.
Accessing bootsect.exe from the DVD via XP, I ran the cmd "d:\boot\bootsect /nt60 F:" "F" being my Vista volume as seen by XP.
-Michael
Hi Michael - thanks for posting. I had to make an assumption about your drive/partition letters. I assume D is your DVD drive and F is where Vista is installed.
L is my DVD drive and N is where Vista is installed. F is where XP is installed.
I ran L:\boot\bootsect /nt60 N: - I got a confirmation that the boot was fixed but the Vista boot loader did not appear on reboot.
Your assumptions were correct. Sorry it didn't work.
Hope you figure it out.
Take care,
Michael

Ok - thanks again.
Joe

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:24:14 -0400, "Joe727" wrote:

I ran L:\boot\bootsect /nt60 N: - I got a confirmation that the boot was fixed but the Vista boot loader did not appear on reboot.

You could always image your existing Vista drive to somewhere safe, boot from the Vista disc and install Vista to get the booting fixed, then restore just the Vista image without changing the boot drive. -- Michael Cecil http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/ http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/

"Michael Cecil" wrote in message

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:24:14 -0400, "Joe727" wrote:
I ran L:\boot\bootsect /nt60 N: - I got a confirmation that the boot was fixed but the Vista boot loader did not appear on reboot.
You could always image your existing Vista drive to somewhere safe, boot from the Vista disc and install Vista to get the booting fixed, then restore just the Vista image without changing the boot drive. -- Michael Cecil http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/ http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/

It's not a big deal. I can reinstall Vista. I am just checking it out along with the new Office Suite Beta. Vista is very nice, but I sure miss the little Cat helper in Office. I use the Cat instead of Clippy.
Joe

You should definitely move up from the cat to a dog. Your life with computers would get much better. I can also show you how to hack the dog that is used as the search helper to make it have diverse sounds and do a gamut of tricks so you can begin focusing on the priorities in life.
CH
"Joe727" wrote in message

"Michael Cecil" wrote in message On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:24:14 -0400, "Joe727" <nospam@nospam.nospam wrote:
I ran L:\boot\bootsect /nt60 N: - I got a confirmation that the boot was fixed but the Vista boot loader did not appear on reboot.
You could always image your existing Vista drive to somewhere safe, boot from the Vista disc and install Vista to get the booting fixed, then restore just the Vista image without changing the boot drive. -- Michael Cecil http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/ http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/
It's not a big deal. I can reinstall Vista. I am just checking it out along with the new Office Suite Beta. Vista is very nice, but I sure miss the little Cat helper in Office. I use the Cat instead of Clippy.
Joe

Joe--Precisely what did you try? I'm hearing "tried those options" the same way I have heard for 7 years "tried Safe Mode in XP: when people have in fact tried one Safe mode option instead of the four they should try since one may work. Did you try all 3 options 1) Startup Repair and 2) System Restore after clicking into System Recovery Options from setup?
CH
"Joe727" wrote in message

Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

LOL - sadly, none of the little helpers are in the new beta version of Word.
Joe
"Chad Harris" <Bushisamoron.net> wrote in message

You should definitely move up from the cat to a dog. Your life with computers would get much better. I can also show you how to hack the dog that is used as the search helper to make it have diverse sounds and do a gamut of tricks so you can begin focusing on the priorities in life.
CH
"Joe727" wrote in message
"Michael Cecil" wrote in message On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:24:14 -0400, "Joe727" <nospam@nospam.nospam wrote:
I ran L:\boot\bootsect /nt60 N: - I got a confirmation that the boot was fixed but the Vista boot loader did not appear on reboot.
You could always image your existing Vista drive to somewhere safe, boot from the Vista disc and install Vista to get the booting fixed, then restore just the Vista image without changing the boot drive. -- Michael Cecil http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/ http://home.comcast.net/~safehex/
It's not a big deal. I can reinstall Vista. I am just checking it out along with the new Office Suite Beta. Vista is very nice, but I sure miss the little Cat helper in Office. I use the Cat instead of Clippy.
Joe

Every one of them on the Vista DVD menu including a couple of command line options. I don't know how else to say 'all of them' other than to have written each of them down in order to type them here. I even clicked the one that says backup from a back-up source even though I didn't have Vista backed up.
I also tried a command line option through XP using the Vista DVD without any luck.
XP and 98SE were ok and I was still able to boot into each of those OSs. I had lost the ability to boot to Vista because of a repair install of XP Pro Retail, but that is fixed now because I reinstalled Vista.
Joe
"Chad Harris" <Bushisamoron.net> wrote in message

Joe--Precisely what did you try? I'm hearing "tried those options" the same way I have heard for 7 years "tried Safe Mode in XP: when people have in fact tried one Safe mode option instead of the four they should try since one may work. Did you try all 3 options 1) Startup Repair and 2) System Restore after clicking into System Recovery Options from setup?
CH
"Joe727" wrote in message Tried those repair options, and they accomplished nothing. As far as I can tell, there is not one specifically to repair the boot loader.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Joe
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message It doesn't work that way in Vista. If you boot with the dvd you should see some links in the lower left of the first screen. One of them offeres the repair options.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - what is the command prompt to repair the master boot record in Vista 5384? In XP it's fixboot and fixmbr.
I am running a triple boot PC. 98SE, XP Pro SP2 and Vista Beta 5384.
Thanks
Joe

Joe727:
I'm not being critical, but following this posting from the beginning. This is the first time you mentioned doing a repair on the XP installation. The repair eliminated the Vista boot and the only repair is to reinstall Vista because XP is an earlier version and wouldn't recognize the updated boot sector. Not knowing about the repair created the confusion.


"Joe727" wrote in message

Every one of them on the Vista DVD menu including a couple of command line options. I don't know how else to say 'all of them' other than to have written each of them down in order to type them here. I even clicked the one that says backup from a back-up source even though I didn't have Vista backed up.
I also tried a command line option through XP using the Vista DVD without any luck.
XP and 98SE were ok and I was still able to boot into each of those OSs. I had lost the ability to boot to Vista because of a repair install of XP Pro Retail, but that is fixed now because I reinstalled Vista.
Joe

IC - However, one of the respondents keeps mentioning XP. That is confusing to me.
In any event, regardless of how the Vista boot loader got corrupted, it needs to be fixed through Vista not XP. The only command I did not try was the Vista equivalent of fixmbr.
Joe
"Dennis Pack x64, IE7B2, O2007B2" wrote in message

Joe727:
I'm not being critical, but following this posting from the beginning. This is the first time you mentioned doing a repair on the XP installation. The repair eliminated the Vista boot and the only repair is to reinstall Vista because XP is an earlier version and wouldn't recognize the updated boot sector. Not knowing about the repair created the confusion.


"Joe727" wrote in message Every one of them on the Vista DVD menu including a couple of command line options. I don't know how else to say 'all of them' other than to have written each of them down in order to type them here. I even clicked the one that says backup from a back-up source even though I didn't have Vista backed up.
I also tried a command line option through XP using the Vista DVD without any luck.
XP and 98SE were ok and I was still able to boot into each of those OSs. I had lost the ability to boot to Vista because of a repair install of XP Pro Retail, but that is fixed now because I reinstalled Vista.
Joe

Joe727: Glad that you're back up and running.
"Joe727" wrote in message

IC - However, one of the respondents keeps mentioning XP. That is confusing to me.
In any event, regardless of how the Vista boot loader got corrupted, it needs to be fixed through Vista not XP. The only command I did not try was the Vista equivalent of fixmbr.
Joe
"Dennis Pack x64, IE7B2, O2007B2" wrote in message Joe727:
I'm not being critical, but following this posting from the beginning. This is the first time you mentioned doing a repair on the XP installation. The repair eliminated the Vista boot and the only repair is to reinstall Vista because XP is an earlier version and wouldn't recognize the updated boot sector. Not knowing about the repair created the confusion.


"Joe727" wrote in message Every one of them on the Vista DVD menu including a couple of command line options. I don't know how else to say 'all of them' other than to have written each of them down in order to type them here. I even clicked the one that says backup from a back-up source even though I didn't have Vista backed up.
I also tried a command line option through XP using the Vista DVD without any luck.
XP and 98SE were ok and I was still able to boot into each of those OSs. I had lost the ability to boot to Vista because of a repair install of XP Pro Retail, but that is fixed now because I reinstalled Vista.
Joe

Thanks - Vista is great. I figured I'd have to reinstall it, but it would be nice to figure out how to fix the master boot record without having to go that route.
Then again, maybe the fixboot part of Vista is not yet finished. Who knows?
Joe
"Dennis Pack x64, v64B2 (5384), OPP2007B2" wrote in message

Joe727: Glad that you're back up and running.
"Joe727" wrote in message IC - However, one of the respondents keeps mentioning XP. That is confusing to me.
In any event, regardless of how the Vista boot loader got corrupted, it needs to be fixed through Vista not XP. The only command I did not try was the Vista equivalent of fixmbr.
Joe
"Dennis Pack x64, IE7B2, O2007B2" wrote in message Joe727:
I'm not being critical, but following this posting from the beginning. This is the first time you mentioned doing a repair on the XP installation. The repair eliminated the Vista boot and the only repair is to reinstall Vista because XP is an earlier version and wouldn't recognize the updated boot sector. Not knowing about the repair created the confusion.


"Joe727" wrote in message Every one of them on the Vista DVD menu including a couple of command line options. I don't know how else to say 'all of them' other than to have written each of them down in order to type them here. I even clicked the one that says backup from a back-up source even though I didn't have Vista backed up.
I also tried a command line option through XP using the Vista DVD without any luck.
XP and 98SE were ok and I was still able to boot into each of those OSs. I had lost the ability to boot to Vista because of a repair install of XP Pro Retail, but that is fixed now because I reinstalled Vista.
Joe