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  • You're MBR or BCD is not causing a problem with Vista. Without more detail, I can't give you an edumacated guess what it might actually be. If you still want to wipe your boot record, you can use linux's DD utility from any linux livecd dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=512 count=1 (replace ? with your particular drive designation) or you could try FDISK /MBR from a windows 98 startup disk (for example) but that might just recreate whatever problem would exist.
  • this web site explain about BR & BCD: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/mbr.html or you can try: fix MBR in Vista Bootsect.exe /NT60 c: or Bootrec.exe /FixMbr Bootrec.exe /FixBoot Bootrec.exe /ScanOs Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd + bcdedit.exe /export "C:BootBCDBackup" bcdedit.exe /import "C:BootBCDBackup" -> restores the store The necessary files are available on the Vista installation cd as well as in the WAIK package, available for free from the MS servers or In Vista however, other program is used to do the job. To restore the MBR using the Vista’s installer DVD, go to the command prompt after booting from the DVD by selecting the menu "Repair your computer" and run the following command; bootrec /FixMbr hope this helps.
  • What makes you think you have a problem with your MBR? There are hundreds of Linux Live CDs with disk utilities - try any of these: http://ubuntu.com http://fedoraproject.org http://www.sysresccd.org http://trinityhome.org
  • There are some good answers here. If you can boot into Vista, then it's probably not the BCD that is your problem. Gtech has offered instructions on how to clear the MBR and do some other things. MS actually offers the repair portion of the Vista DVD as a free download. You can burn the CD image to a CD and use it to boot the Vista repair disc in order to make repairs. This is advantageous because some boot CDs (such as Winternals) have been reported to do damage to Vista simply by being run and attached to an install. Anyway, here's the link to a safe download: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

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