help fixing my vista machine
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| I hate cross posting, but this is urgent. My flat mate has just broken the boot of my vista machine misinstalling a linux on my labtop. Does anybody here know how to fix this without reinstalling the whole system= Thanks! |
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| boot disk and run fix mbr |
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| fix mbr is a command, an utility or what? (I've never done this before...) |
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| I've found this. Is this what I'm suposed to do? http://askbobrankin.com/fix_mbr.html |
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| Yep, it will work - if you are lucky. |
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| I hope so, I have no idea what else has she been touching... arrgs... |
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| There is also a fixboot (ie fixboot c:) - but I have no idea what works with Vista. I use XP. |
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| This covers Bootcfg too: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsf/p/fixboot.htm |
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| She? Post a picture of her - let's get a look at it. |
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| She? Post a picture of her - let's get a look at it O_o Dude, this is BlitzBasic.com, not MySpace. |
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| If you boot from the Vista Install DVD, there's a 'repair boot' option, which will do the fixmbr and other things to straighten out most boot problems. There are several levels of fixes, so you may need to choose the 'repair boot' multiple times. (I restored a disk image of my vista install that wouldn't start either, had to do the repair boot thing two or three times in a row, but after that everything was OK and it booted up fine without needing to do a full blown repair or reinstall. |
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| as a last resort i guess you could kinda hook the hard drive up to a sata port on a normal pc or something and just read your files off it. |
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