Vista bcd restore

Use diskpart from the installer Command Prompt. Google for directions, e. Hi there. Really hoping you can help! What am I doing wrong? Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Leave this field empty. Home About. November 13, Windows If the error text refers to the winload. Very important. To do this, run the command: diskpart Then list available disks:. Remember the assigned drive letters, since they will be used in the commands later.

If the drive letter is not assigned to the System Reserved partition by default , you can assign it yourself using diskpart. Run: diskpart Select your local disk in my case, only one hard disk is installed on the computer, but you can list local disks with the list disk command : select disk 0 The screenshot above shows that the System Reserved partition is called Volume 1. Select it: select volume 1 Assign a drive letter I assigned a letter C:, but you can use any other letter, in this case change the path in the following commands : assign letter C: exit.

Related Reading. Thisenvironment replaces the boot. In the LightsOut Restore configuration theboot. UsingBCDEdit you can alter the order in which the boot options appear as well as setthe default OS to start among other things. Extreme cautionshould be taken. There are a few things to note before using thisprocedure on a system. This can be fixedby booting up to the Veritas Recovery Disk version 7 or 8 and replacing thebroken file with the backup that was made in step 1.

Once this is done you willbe able to boot back into the system. Check the following:. Restoring just the Vista partition will require a repair the first time it's restored. Mark K0lo has forwarded information to me along the same lines as what I was working on with repairing Vista using BartPE. Thanks, Mark. I have tested this procedure with an image restore using both BartPE and the Full Linux version of TI version 10, build 4, and they both restored a Vista created partition without needing to be repaired.

Others have reported success with cloning. Last edited by a moderator: Dec 9, MudCrab , Sep 17, Joined: Dec 1, Posts: Thanks, just tested this with a new install of Vista64 and it works as advertised. Good work Paul and Mark. I have posted a link to this workaround in the thread that started it all off titled Vista: Are there issues with the disk ID? Regards Menorcaman. Menorcaman , Sep 17, The bcdboot command assumes as default the English language.

You should specify the language of the installed Windows version or else boot menu display problems could follow. Dual-boot Repair tool for Windows 10 and earlier has the "Automatic repair" option which tries to guess and set the correct language for Windows Boot manager in BCD.

C: drive is usually mapped to active partition.