Back when using XP, to remove grub and restore XP mbr I simply booted into
XP setup, chose recovery and used the fixboot and fixmbr commands.

However the Vista repair is very different. If I select repair startup it
does not actually list vista as an option to repair. I tried repairing by
clicking next anyway but it found nothing to fix. Vista is there and
bootable, I am using it now, but I wish to restore its bootloader.

Can anyone please advise?

Hello,

[url]http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.htm[/url] is a good utility (MBRFix.exe)

To download: [url]http://www.sysint.no/en/Download.aspx[/url]

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Have a nice day,

Jonathan Yaniv
Microsoft Windows LiveT Butterfly Expert

Visit the ButterflySays Blog at
[url]http://spaces.msn.com/ButterflySays/[/url]

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
news:OxRGecSWHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Back when using XP, to remove grub and restore XP mbr I simply booted into
> XP setup, chose recovery and used the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
>
> However the Vista repair is very different. If I select repair startup it
> does not actually list vista as an option to repair. I tried repairing by
> clicking next anyway but it found nothing to fix. Vista is there and
> bootable, I am using it now, but I wish to restore its bootloader.
>
> Can anyone please advise?[/color]

1. Reboot from Vista disk, select Startup repair in WinRE.

OR

2. Run CMD as administrator, use "bcdedit" + some parameters. you can type "bcdedit /?" to get more help.

"Jonathan Yaniv" <yaniv.jonathan******.com> wrote in message
news:uCiG0kSWHHA.392@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> [url]http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.htm[/url] is a good utility (MBRFix.exe)
>
> To download: [url]http://www.sysint.no/en/Download.aspx[/url][/color]

That is quite a complicated program and the instructions are sparse.
Do I have to boot from that program because when I run it, it just briefly
flashes up a command prompt then nothing happens.

"stealbean" <stealbean********.com> wrote in message
news:stealbean.2ml1kz@no-mx.tabletquestions.com...[color=blue]
>
> 1. Reboot from Vista disk, select Startup repair in WinRE.[/color]

Startup repair does not help, it does not find a startup problem
[color=blue]
> 2. Run CMD as administrator, use "bcdedit" + some parameters. you can
> type "bcdedit /?" to get more help.[/color]

Does not seem to be a restore boot option in the help section.

download EasyBCD and install in either xp or vista.
one of its options is to repair boot.


[email]mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com[/email]

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message news:OxRGecSWHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Back when using XP, to remove grub and restore XP mbr I simply booted into
XP setup, chose recovery and used the fixboot and fixmbr commands.

However the Vista repair is very different. If I select repair startup it
does not actually list vista as an option to repair. I tried repairing by
clicking next anyway but it found nothing to fix. Vista is there and
bootable, I am using it now, but I wish to restore its bootloader.

Can anyone please advise?

"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com> wrote in message
news:OgP%23RPTWHHA.4964@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>download EasyBCD and install in either xp or vista.
>one of its options is to repair boot.[/color]

That has not worked, nor did VistaBootPro.
Thing is when I use these programs to check the boot, everything seems
normal and linux/grub is nowhere to be seen. Its as if the Vista boot is
totally in tact, but Grub is before it and overiding it.

Beck wrote:[color=blue]
>
> "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:OgP%23RPTWHHA.4964@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> download EasyBCD and install in either xp or vista.
>> one of its options is to repair boot.[/color]
>
> That has not worked, nor did VistaBootPro.
> Thing is when I use these programs to check the boot, everything seems
> normal and linux/grub is nowhere to be seen. Its as if the Vista boot
> is totally in tact, but Grub is before it and overiding it.[/color]

I was running a non-Microsoft bootloader (OSL2000) because I'd been
experimenting with OS-X on a system that was already booting Win2K and
two versions of XP and Vista. For a while I had all five running
nicely, but I tired of my experiment with OS-X and decided to drop
OSL2000. I could have killed it with the OSL2000 setup program, but I
had inferred that that didn't really get it out of the MBR -- it just
masked it. (I think. Not really sure, but that's not important now.)
I tried to get rid of OSL2000 by doing a boot repair with my Vista
installation disk. Didn't work. So I did a repair using my XP
installation disk. FIXMBR warned me that it had found a non-standard
bootloader and cautioned that running it might rearrange partitions. I
took a deep breath and ran it anyway. It fixed the MBR (got rid of
OSL2000) and left the Vista bootloader alone. Now when I boot I get a
choice between Vista and "older version of Windows." Partitions
remained where they were and OSL2000 is gone.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

If you have an XP CD, use that to fixmbr to rid yourself of GRUB. You will
then have to use the Vista DVD to repair the Vista bootloader. BTDT ;-)

--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
news:OWU7OZTWHHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>
> "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:OgP%23RPTWHHA.4964@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>download EasyBCD and install in either xp or vista.
>>one of its options is to repair boot.[/color]
>
> That has not worked, nor did VistaBootPro.
> Thing is when I use these programs to check the boot, everything seems
> normal and linux/grub is nowhere to be seen. Its as if the Vista boot is
> totally in tact, but Grub is before it and overiding it.[/color]

Jane C wrote:
You[color=blue]
> will then have to use the Vista DVD to repair the Vista bootloader.[/color]

In my experience that wasn't the case. Surprised me, that's for sure.
But the Vista bootloader was untouched by XP FIXMBR and is still running
just fine without an additional Vista DVD repair.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

Bill, you're correct, thinking back on it. :)

--
Jane, not plain ;) 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
"Bill Anderson" <billanderson601******.com> wrote in message
news:Qb-dnV7z5MWNu3_YnZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@rcn.net...[color=blue]
> Jane C wrote:
> You[color=green]
>> will then have to use the Vista DVD to repair the Vista bootloader.[/color]
>
> In my experience that wasn't the case. Surprised me, that's for sure. But
> the Vista bootloader was untouched by XP FIXMBR and is still running just
> fine without an additional Vista DVD repair.
>
> --
> Bill Anderson
>
> I am the Mighty Favog
>[/color]

Install your S-ATA drivers to see the installation. Then you can work with
it.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
news:OxRGecSWHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Back when using XP, to remove grub and restore XP mbr I simply booted into
> XP setup, chose recovery and used the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
>
> However the Vista repair is very different. If I select repair startup it
> does not actually list vista as an option to repair. I tried repairing by
> clicking next anyway but it found nothing to fix. Vista is there and
> bootable, I am using it now, but I wish to restore its bootloader.
>
> Can anyone please advise?[/color]

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote[color=blue]
> Back when using XP, to remove grub and restore XP mbr I simply booted into
> XP setup, chose recovery and used the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
>
> However the Vista repair is very different. If I select repair startup it
> does not actually list vista as an option to repair. I tried repairing by
> clicking next anyway but it found nothing to fix. Vista is there and
> bootable, I am using it now, but I wish to restore its bootloader.[/color]

How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to
troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows Vista
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us[/url]

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Don't know if this is what you look for:
In the 'boot' folder on the Vista DVD you find a program called
'bootsect.exe'.
With 'bootsect /nt60 c:' you can write a Vista compatible bootsector, with
'bootsect /nt52 c:' you can write an XP compatible one.
This will allow you to change between Vista's BOOTMGR and XP's NTLDR.
Best regards


"Beck" <beck@none> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:OxRGecSWHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Back when using XP, to remove grub and restore XP mbr I simply booted into
> XP setup, chose recovery and used the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
>
> However the Vista repair is very different. If I select repair startup it
> does not actually list vista as an option to repair. I tried repairing by
> clicking next anyway but it found nothing to fix. Vista is there and
> bootable, I am using it now, but I wish to restore its bootloader.
>
> Can anyone please advise?[/color]

You can try this. It worked fine for me and its free.

[url]http://vistabootpro.org/[/url]

Hope this helps you and is what your looking for:
Blue Angel

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:51:46 -0500, "Richard Urban"
<richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Install your S-ATA drivers to see the installation. Then you can work with
>it.[/color]