How to restore vista MBR without vista disc

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How to restore vista MBR without vista disc

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Started 1 year ago by ajf355
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ajf355

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Hi, I need help big time! I partitioned my drive and then put another OS on it which failed, so I need to restore the MBR back to vista. Unfortunately, someone has been mucking about with my vista install disc, I really need this laptop for tomorrow at school. I can load a mac disc on it so that I can do sumthing through terminal.

I'm begging for help here as I have important files on it so, I can't reinstall vista for tht exact reason.

Anything you can think of that might be helpful, please post on here.

Thank you very much
Andrew

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ScottW

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Andrew, if you can't get your Vista disc back, you can make a bootable Vista disc following these instructions:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....-have-one/

After you boot into the Windows Recovery Environment (RE), you should run the bootrec.exe command. I'm not sure of the exact sequence, but start with:
bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot
See the instructions in the following Microsoft KB article which includes a bcdedit command sequence to try if the bootrec command alone doesn't do the trick.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

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