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mbr help?
  1. 29 Mar 2009 #1


    freeman

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    mbr help?

    I, uh, couldn't figure out where this should go so I'm just gonna put it here.

    I dual boot vista ultimate and win7 (build 7000) on my laptop (both x32) and the vista installation ksod'd me. I had to wipe the vista partition and reinstall vista. apparently the mbr was on the vista partition and was wiped out also. now with the new vista installation there was a new mbr and win7 is not registered in it. i don't get the choice to boot into win7 when i start up my computer.

    can anyone point out a way to solve this problem for a computer n00b? (that is, a way short of wiping win7 and reinstalling it too)

    thanks mucho


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  2. 29 Mar 2009 #2
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    rive0108

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    Re: mbr help?

    Rebuild the BCD with the 7 Disk (Startup Repair so that is sees 7 and vista and gives the dual boot option) What occured is when you re-installed Vista you overwrote the Boot config for Win 7- now you have to mark 7 as "Active", and then repair the Win7 boot data.

    Follow steps here for marking a partition (volume) as Active.
    More info here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/163304-dual-boot-using-free-partitioning-software.html

    System Recovery Options (same process-but you will use Win7 Disk instead of Vista disk to perform the Startup repair- you may have to do this twice)

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