Vista boot problems

[Kennysevenfold]

hi, got xp on one drive (default load drive) and vista on another

went into boot choice today to load up vista for my games and got the error

MBR missing

i have tried running the repair process from booting from my vista install disk but nothing.

what shall i do.?

the last time this happened i just reinstalled vista, but cant really affort to this time.

Thanks

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Had something very similar happen to me a few days ago. Tried the repair and start-up repair from the boot disc, ended up thinking I'd need a reinstall.

One last Google attempt lead me here though:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

Using a combination of /FixBoot and /FixMBR, my problems were solved. I'd give this a go before reinstalling.

DK

Cheers mate, shall go have a go and let you know how i got on

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Ahh ok, done both of them, not getting the error NTLDR missing

anything.?

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Hi, the thing is, when i set the vista hard drive to the default one, and have the vista install disk in the computer but dont press any button on startup to run from it, vista loads fine, i just get that message when the install disk is not in the dvd drive wtf.?

Edit:

on the xp drive under System properties - advanced - start up and recovery - default OS - NOTHING

and if i click edit it opens boot loader in notebook but all it says is

"[boot loader]
timeout=30"

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Thanks mate

Umm done a restart, and now in xp i have this under msconfig - boot.ini tab

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pro" /fastdetect

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Hmm.

The XP bootloader isn't seeing your Vista installation at all, but even though it's on a different drive it should still be there. Have you tried seeing what boot.ini says in Vista?

i don't actually think the vista one was ever there mate.

as they are on 2 different hard drives, not dual booted.