Missing Vista Boot Manager

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Installed Vista x86 and have run with that fine. Now installed Vista x64 on another disk not realising that Vista x64 will recognise the first MBR already there and didn't install it. Now I want to remove the original installed x86 Vista and boot from the x64 Vista. Did a repair from Vista disc and typed bootrec /fixmbr and it says command completed successfully but each time I reboot it says missing boot manager. I've made the partition boot, active. Biut the system will not boot without the original disc MBR in. Please help.
 
Have you tried setting it as the first device booted in the BIOS?

Have you tried running the fixmbr with the disk with x86 disconnected?
 
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Yes, the Samsung F1 is the x64 install and the Wester Digital is the x86 installation. In BIOS I set the F1 as the Primary Master and first in the boot sequence. I've botted up with the original Vista x64, gone into repair and typed the following:

Bootrec.exe /fixmbr

Comes back "Command was completed successfully" after 1 second.

Bootrec.exe /fixboot

Comes back after about 10 seconds, "command completed successfully"

Bootrec.exe /rebuildBCD

Comes back "number of Windows installation : 0

Chane back the BIOS settings and reboot and still comes up with "Missing Boot Manager"

Help!
 
Sorry, are you doing it this is the recovery console or using the recovery tools as there is a GUI for this which doesn't seem to be what you are doing.

I had this problem the other day. Trying to remember how I solved it.
 
OK, ran exactly what it said in the link, unplugged all the other drivers apart from the 1 Vista x64 I want bootable, configured this as SATA 0 in BIOS, ran Vista repair till it came up with no errors, went into repair and command prompt, ran the following:

bootrec /fixmbr
cd drive:/boot/bootsect.exe/nt60 all /force
del c:/boot/bcd
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

*Note on the above 2nd and 3rd line this should be a backslash but I have an American keyboard.

Rebooted after changing BIOS back to Samsung 1st bootable and same old story. I think its easier to back everything up with Trueimage and reinstall and restore from backup! So annoying!
 
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