How to restore the boot area of ​​the disk (MBR) in Windows Vista

Restore the boot area or the Master Boot Record, I had after the regular Ubuntu installation for idle interest. After a second HDD, on which was installed, This wonderful free OS has been formatted. Computer does not boot up normally due to the fact that Linux is installed to the MBR of the Grub bootloader his, which stopped working after the killing of Ubuntu. Recovery "of windows' loader proved to be completely non-trivial undertaking.

With Windows XP era, much has changed and the standard commands fixboot and fixmbr is no longer suited to restore MBR and boot loader.

If you need to restore the MBR and all the normal Vista boot process, insert the installation CD and boot from it. Then choose your preferred language installer:

If you select Russian, and gain will be in Russian, that when working with the command line is very unpleasant task. Switching layouts in default then Alt + Shift.

After you select does not need to install Vista again :) Just click on the language Repair your computer.

Next, push Next in the next window and in the window that appears, choose the right Command Prompt, open a terminal window. Similar to the one that runs the command cmd in a workable Windows.

Next, perform the two teams:

bootrec / fixboot

bootrec / fixmbr

They will restore the normal bootloader and return your operating system to a working state.

via HTG