How To FixMBR using Windows Vista Bootable Disk

Posted on December 13, 2007

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The following tutorial will teach you "How to fixmbr using Windows Vista bootable disk".

  • Boot up your computer using Microsoft Windows Vista Bootable disk. (Check your BIOS setup)
  • When you see the 1st Windows Vista installation screen appear, please configure your 'language' preferences.
  • When prompted, click 'Repair your computer'.
  • Startup Repair will automatically detect a problem. When prompted, click 'Repair and restart', and then restart your computer from the Windows Vista bootable disk. If Startup Repair does not automatically detect a problem, continue to the next step.
  • click 'Repair Your Computer'.
  • Click Command Prompt from the System Recovery Options.
  • BootRec.exe provides the following command-line options:

  • /FixMbr. Re-writes the master boot record (MBR) of the system partition to start Windows Vista. This won’t overwrite the existing partition table.
  • /FixBoot. Writes a boot sector onto the system partition to start Windows Vista.
  • /ScanOs. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and displays them to you. Oddly, this didn’t work for me, even on a test system that was starting just fine.
  • /RebuildBcd. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and prompts you to pick the ones you want to add to the BCD.
  • Type  'BootRec.exe /fixmbr' and press Enter.
  • Congratulations! You're done.

Basically your Linux GRUB will go away. We recommend you look at GUID Partition Table.

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18 Responses to “How To FixMBR using Windows Vista Bootable Disk”

  1. juu on January 9th, 2008 11:30 pm

    Thanks! Worked perfectly.

  2. Nitin on August 8th, 2008 6:16 am

    Thanks..it helped me

  3. Droopy on August 9th, 2008 6:49 pm

    Tks from another happy man

  4. trm96 on August 13th, 2008 2:50 pm

    This article saved my life!!!!! Thank you so much!!!

  5. MikeB on September 6th, 2008 3:08 pm

    Excellent – clear and concise, thank you.

  6. Allan B. on November 15th, 2008 8:25 am

    Perfect and Brilliant , it recovered my boot system
    Thank you

  7. RickD on December 30th, 2008 3:29 am

    Totally agree with both MikeB & Allan B. Thanks for taking the time.

  8. David on January 3rd, 2009 4:47 am

    Thanks a lot. The automatic boot recovery did not work, but the “fixmbr” and “fixboot” did the trick.

  9. dude on January 15th, 2009 10:44 pm

    Ok, i found this out.

    For windows 7 DONT use the RebuildBcd switch.

    It will search for vista installations and because it’s not vista but windows7 it won’t find anything and makes a new mbr with 0 OS in the list and it will tell u to press ctrl+alt+del when u boot up after that.

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  11. Nhg54 on January 18th, 2009 8:57 am

    Thanks!! worked like a charm!

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  16. jacob on February 27th, 2009 12:48 am

    Life saver :) thanks a lot

  17. John on March 1st, 2009 6:18 am

    Worked as perfect as could be!! Thanks so much!!

  18. NM on March 18th, 2009 10:23 pm

    Thanks a lot, it worked.

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