{"id":475,"date":"2011-07-29T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/fix-broken-dual-boot-machinelinux-and-vistawindows-7\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:20:33","slug":"fix-broken-dual-boot-machinelinux-and-vistawindows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/fix-broken-dual-boot-machinelinux-and-vistawindows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix broken Dual boot machine–Linux and Vista\/Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I you have a Windows machine and you\u2019ve installed Linux (Ubuntu, Puppy or the like) and all of a sudden you can\u2019t get into your Windows 7 or Vista Operating system you are not alone.<\/p>\n

Many updates to both Linux and Windows seem to \u2018bork\u2019 the bootloaders of each. I just got done with a repair on a family members machine so I thought I put down what I did to fix the issue.<\/p>\n

First and foremost I won\u2019t say this anymore than once \u2013 HAVE YOUR SH$T BACKED UP REGULARLY! I have written so many articles on backups if, by now, you don\u2019t have a back up and recovery solution you deserve to get f&^ked.<\/p>\n

OK so let\u2019s start. The system I was recovering was a Windows Vista installation that had recently had Ubuntu 11.04 installed \u2018on top of\/along side of\u2019 the existing Windows installation \u2013 making for a \u2018Dual Boot\u2019 system.<\/p>\n

After Ubuntu updated the Vista installation became un usable \u2013 the system would only boot into Ubuntu and would crash if trying to get into Vista.<\/p>\n

You will need to boot with your Vista\/Windows 7 installation disk. A repair disk will do. If you don\u2019t have a Vista installation or repair disk you can check out here<\/a> for information on how to create on. If you don\u2019t have a Windows 7 installation or repair disk you can go here<\/a> the process is simple.<\/p>\n

Put you repair\/installation disk in the drive and start your computer off of the DVD\/CD. This often entails holding or hitting the \u2018F12\u2019 key and selecting the option to boot from the optical\/dvd drive.<\/p>\n

Hit Enter at the language selection prompt <\/p>\n

\"WelcomeToVistaSetup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

then hit "R" to get to the repair section. You can then select the automatic boot repair tool, but it often will not do any good. Try that at least once. If it doesn\u2019t work then select the command prompt (console) <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SystemRecoveryOptions\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and type in the following commands:<\/p>\n

On Vista:
bootrec.exe \/fixmbr
then hit enter
Then type in:
x:\\boot\\bootsect.exe \/nt60 all \/force
then hit enter (you may get error, just ignore for now)<\/p>\n

On Windows 7:
bootrec.exe \/fixmbr
Then hit enter
bootsect.exe \/nt60 all \/force
Then hit enter (again you may get error – just ignore)<\/p>\n

Then type in:
BootRec.exe \/FixBoot <\/p>\n

DON\u201dT EXIT THE COMMAND PROMPT YET!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next type in:
attrib bcd -s -h -r C:\\boot\\BCD
Then hit enter<\/p>\n

Next type in:
ren c:\\boot\\bcd bcd.old
Then hit enter<\/p>\n

Then type in:
BootRec.exe \/ScanOs
and Enter<\/p>\n

Then type in:
bootrec.exe \/rebuildbcd
And enter again<\/p>\n

Type in:<\/p>\n

Exit. and reboot your system.<\/p>\n

HOPEFULLY you will be able to get back in.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If not be prepared to spend a few hours or more searching the web for solutions. Or better yet just restoring your system from a backup image \"Smile\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I you have a Windows machine and you\u2019ve installed Linux (Ubuntu, Puppy or the like) and all of a sudden you can\u2019t get into your Windows 7 or Vista Operating system you are not alone. Many updates to both Linux and Windows seem to \u2018bork\u2019 the bootloaders of each. I just got done with a … Continue reading “Fix broken Dual boot machine–Linux and Vista\/Windows 7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,175,13,184,186,15],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}