Windows 7 and Vista Dual Boot

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Hi, I think this is the right place to post this. Basically, I had Vista and Ubuntu 8.10 dual-booting via SuperGrub. I then installed Windows 7 on the HDD that Ubuntu used to be on. I now can't boot into Vista. HALP!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :)

Off to lecture, back in an hour!
 
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

Pretty sure its a genuine product release from microsoft so should be a legal torrent. If not please remove.

Vista has some boot problems so microsoft released the startup recovery disc to allow users with pre-installed vista to fix their boot menu's to allow them back into vista.

I'd give that a try first and see if it can fix your boot loader.

This guide should run you through it fairly quickly.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html
 
Update: Used my Vista Disc to fix the boot record, but now its Super Grub holding me back, I think. No idea what version it is, so does anyone know how to go about getting shot of it?

Also, I'll try the above suggestion now. Ta for the help so far!
 
I had a similar problem where I lost the bootloader for the Vista installation.

To get it back I used EasyBCD, downloaded it in W7, installed it and added the Vista entry, worked perfectly.
 
Tomc@T, it sort of worked. It got me into Vista once, and then on reboot kept bluescreening and finally went into CHKDISK. Maybe it did something funnny to the boot entry?

Oh..... When I did mine, it did the chkdsk on the next reboot and then worked fine.

I will have a look at the the settings I have and post them up for you to compare? if that helps.
 
This is the squence that I did it in:

Added the entry and saved it.

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I went into manage Bootloader and I clicked on write MBR to reinstall the Vista bootloader.

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I then went to change settings, set W7 as the default with 5 secs display and saved it.

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When I rebooted, I selected Vista, but it wanted to do a chkdsk on the W7 partition, which I let it do and then I got to the welcome screen and was in as normal.

Hope this helps you sort it out mate.
 
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