Thanks ickymay
I have found EasyBCD and I think it will do the job. Why do you think W7 would need recovering, personaly I was just thinking i would need to fix the boot manager.
Cheers Paul
Are you doing this as a dual-boot scenario? Cus, if I follow this correctly... you had XP, added Windows 7 but, lost BOOTMGR... Now you have 7 & want to put XP back. Would be spell it out for me before I attempt offering you any (maybe helpful) comments. Thanks.
I have been through installs of 7 for multi-boot set up & had the BOOTMGR disappear & had to fix it/get it back. Still I need a better, clearer understanding of your scenario before I offer anything more.
Regards,
Drew
"A scan a day keeps the nasties away."
Ickymay,
Have you actually done that - and did 7 startup repair do it automatically - so you could boot straight back into 7?
I take it startup repair didn't add XP into the boot menu , and you needed to do it from within 7?
I have done this many times with 100% success rate
Hey. that was not becouse you had to fix mistakes by your teenage son was it????
Paul
Thanks for the response.
I take it you mean the recovery disc that you create with recdisc.exe ?
Those are the same system recovery options that are on the dvd.
That's what I meant by startup repair, LOL. Sorry if it wasn't very clear.
It automatically searches and attempts to fix startup errors. I.E. the first thing it does is to go into Startup Repair automatically.
It also finds the installed o/s, you then highlight the one you want, click Next and select startup repair, cmd prompt, system restore, restore a previously created pc image, etc.
Interesting it rewrites the NT6 bootsector and a Vista/ Win 7 mbr automatically.
The Vista startup repair won't do that - you need to select cmd prompt and use bootsect.exe and fixmbr commands.
Fascinating if that is what it does.
I hope I understood you correctly?