Boot Record Fix? Anyone?

Hey all,

Just wanted to humor some of you with a little story and perhaps you will know a resolution. I was using Windows 7 with no errors and everything was great when someone told me I should use 64bit if I have a 64bit processor. Well so i thought it would be good to install WinXP 64bit. To my surprise I should have thought of this WinXP overwrote the boot record again. Now I have no option to boot back to Win7 and WinXP 64bit is creating more problems for programs and drivers I wouldn't ever have imagined.

So I thought you know i'll do the good ol' system repair from the Win7 repair disk. I remember from Vista I did that before and i did the command "bootrec.exe /mbr" and it prompted back "completed successfully". So you would think that it would rewrite the boot record and you would be able to boot again.

However that didn't happen!! Any suggestions other then reinstalling Win7??

Thanks

Use easyBCD and you can recreate your boot record.

mansrm81 said:

You need to do both of these

bootrec.ece/fixmbr
bootrec.exe/fixboot

I'll try that thanks.

EasyBCD doesn't work right with WinXP 64bit I tried that and it says error initializing application.

hi have you tried running vistabootpro in xp 64bit and just add win7 back to the boot menu

Actually I fixed it now. Thanks for all your help by providing me results.

***THE FIX***

What I did was I just went to reinstall Windows in the same directory. Then when it did the copying of the image and went to reboot for the install, I noticed it showed me the boot menu to go back to Win7. So what I did was I stopped the installation from that point and I booted Win7. Went to the local disk and deleted the startup files in %Windows_temp folder and then did MSCONFIG selected the Boot tab and removed the setup from the bootmenu.

Thanks again for all your input.