Resotre Vista Bootloader

[Innocent Devil]

i hav 5365 and xp dulaboot

with xp on C: drive and vista on H: drive

today i formatted C: drive reinstalled XP

how can i restore the vista boot loader ???

i tried

bootsect.exe /NT60 ALL

fixntfs.exe /lh

but none worked

treied EasyBCD to restore it but after that system goes in a boot loop

so i had to go to recovery console and fixmbr to get xp booting

I *FORMATTED* my C: drive in that contex how can i restore the bootloader

can somebody help pleaz..

Thanx in advance

[Biohead]

Insert your Vista DVD and boot from it. There used to be an option of "Automated Restore" which will identify the problem and fix it.

It worked for me when I did a similar thing and needed to restore the bootloader.

[fizban2]

biohead is right, Vista DVD is a great recovery tool, and testing tool also

[Innocent Devil]

I dont think so

when i tried automated restore ,it detects the problem as bootloader is missing

but recovery leads to some error

i had kept copy of cmldr,bootmgr and the "boot" folder befor formatting c: drive

the i copied these to c: drive

and then tried automated restore

now it detects same error and corrects it (BDCMW or something like that)

getting worse , it prvents me booting even XP !!

so i had go back to fixmbr & fixboot to get XP to boot

anyway thanx for the suggesion

and more suggesions reqd.

[Innocent Devil]

I searched long to solve this , but foud nothing

with some trial n' error i found out this

Simple Workaround For the Problem

do fixmbr,fixboot to get XP booting properly.

U need the Vista's boot folder (not from the DVD, but that created in the C: drive)

It includes:

fixfat.exe (dunno nacessory)

fixntfs.exe (dunno nacessory)

memtest.exe (For Memory Diagnostic Tool)

BCD (Important)

BCD.LOG

i dunno abt the en-US and fonts folder, whether they are nacessory or not(i have them).

then 'bootmgr' file

Let's Rock 'n Roll

copy boot folder to C: drive (do it from XP, Vista make its drive as C: drive and make problems)

copy bootmgr to C:

rename ntldr to xpldr

rename bootmgr to ntldr

Reboot

if u r BCD is correct u can see the "Windows Boot Manager"

boot to Vista

run bcdedit as

bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \xpldr

That's it

Now u can select XP from Vista's Boot manager as usaul and any ntldr based OS also

Then why did M$ renamed it, if it is equivalent to ntldr ???

[Alanoll]

Then why did M$ renamed it, if it is equivalent to ntldr ???

Equivalent but not the same. It's actually a complete rewrite, so in essense it's a new program. Also, ntldr is quite a bit different from Vista's version.

[Innocent Devil]

INFO:

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