Rewriting mbr vista

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Michael Michael 2, 5 5 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Seems like it recognized the OS on my windows 8 drive. But when I choose that option it doesn't do anything. Just a cursor blinks on the screen. Here's the information it gave me: paste. Could you try to enter in the terminal: sudo grub-reconf — Michael. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. You have to start up Vista in the Recovery Environment and then run the bootrec command. Choose the language, time, currency, etc and click Next. Now click on Repair Your Computer. Choose the operating system to repair and click Next.

Now type bootrec. This will rebuild the boot configuration data and hopefully fix your problem. Founder of Help Desk Geek and managing editor. He began blogging in and quit his job in to blog full-time. He has over 15 years of industry experience in IT and holds several technical certifications. Read Aseem's Full Bio. We hate spam too, unsubscribe at any time.

You will normally see error messages like: Table of Contents. Subscribe on YouTube! A more convenient but still dangerous method is to run Winblows in a VM. Vista and Windows 7 have little to offer that free software does not already do better, so the best option is to never run Windows. Yuhong Bao Reply: August 26th, at pm. What good does that do? Well, it is true that Windows will still wipe the MBR.

I am talking about installing GRUB into a location that Windows do not wipe, which is the partition boot sector. And well, personally I have been booting to Windows less often thanks to Wine, which allows running Windows apps. Also, the move to EFI is ongoing, which may make all the MBR and boot sector stuff completely moot as it adds a standard boot manager. August 24, at am. Search Techrights. Site Wiki : You can improve this site by helping the extension of the site's content.