I use my PC to dual boot between XP and Vista, with XP being on a
separate hard disk to Vista. XP is on drive c:, I have a d: data hard
disk and Vista is on e:.

Up until Sunday morning my XP installation was running fine, when
suddenly I received an error while running a program, and found I
couldn't restart it. However, during a restart, I was abruptly informed
the c:\windows\system32\config\system was "missing or corrupt", and to
cut a long story short, I reinstalled XP.

The problem now is that the dual boot menu is missing. I've read I
have to somehow get to the system recovery options, select a command
prompt and enter:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot

Is this correct? I'm afraid of losing my XP installation again if I
input the wrong commands. I know Vista is there waiting for me but just
can't reach it. I'd be extremely grateful if someone could give me some
steps on how to get it going again.

Thanks in advance

Rob.


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Chickahing

Do this 1st

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91...up-repair.html

Then do this to dual boot.

Download EasyBCD

'Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies'
(http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1)

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mansrm81

If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep .

Thanks mansrm81 for the quick reply. I'll give it a go and keep you
posted. I'm sure it won't end up with your rep in tatters


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Chickahing

Forgot to say you need to click on add/remove entries then you can do
what is need done.


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mansrm81

If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep .

If you formatted the system partition, then you wiped out Vista's Boot
Manager. If not, then the command would be bootsect /nt60 sys to
rewrite the boot sector that runs Vista boot manager.

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:27:37 -0500, Chickahing
wrote:


I use my PC to dual boot between XP and Vista, with XP being on a
separate hard disk to Vista. XP is on drive c:, I have a d: data hard
disk and Vista is on e:.

Up until Sunday morning my XP installation was running fine, when
suddenly I received an error while running a program, and found I
couldn't restart it. However, during a restart, I was abruptly informed
the c:\windows\system32\config\system was "missing or corrupt", and to
cut a long story short, I reinstalled XP.

The problem now is that the dual boot menu is missing. I've read I
have to somehow get to the system recovery options, select a command
prompt and enter:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot

Is this correct? I'm afraid of losing my XP installation again if I
input the wrong commands. I know Vista is there waiting for me but just
can't reach it. I'd be extremely grateful if someone could give me some
steps on how to get it going again.

Thanks in advance

Rob.