Restore Vista Boot Loader?

nexus450 · 17 Jan 2007 at 13:24

Hi. The other day I installed Ubuntu on another Partition with Vista, I decided (the day after lol) that I didn't want Ubuntu and was just going to go back to Vista. I booted Vista as normal and formatted the Ubuntu partitions (silly me) and then extended Vista's partition to use the free space left after the format.

OK so far so good, I carried on as normal, working away, downloading, etc, etc, then I had to reboot (installed something) and then when the computer started to start up again I got this:

Loading GRUB, Please wait...
ERROR 22

Basically I want to know how to fix Vista's boot loader so GRUB won't try and load and it will just boot straight to vista.

I do not wan't to lose anything though and I think formatting would be a last resort, I have backed up some little files last night (using cmd and notepad lol).

If the fixmbr and fixboot commands work with Vista then that should fix it yes?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thx

modo77 · 17 Jan 2007 at 13:39

nexus450 said:
If the fixmbr and fixboot commands work with Vista then that should fix it yes?

Not tried it in Vista yet, but would expect them too

nexus450 · 17 Jan 2007 at 13:42

Well I am not at home now, but will try when I get home!

I hope it does work!!

jaric · 17 Jan 2007 at 14:50

If you boot from the Vista DVD you should have an option to repair the installation. I used it when I screwed up my boot partition. It took about 3 attempts but eventually it reinstalled the Vista boot loader & was back working again

nexus450 · 17 Jan 2007 at 15:06

Nope

There is no options like that! I'm gonna format if it doesn't work!!

jaric · 17 Jan 2007 at 19:53

Just booted from my DVD to check and when I get to the install screen where you have the "Install Now" button, there is an option at the bottom called "Repair your computer". This is what I used to fix mine.