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Restoring any kind of Boot Loader to a non-booting multi-partition Vista/XP machine

Restoring any kind of Boot Loader to a non-booting multi-partition Vista/XP machine

I have a Dell 1210 laptop that was dual booting Vista (80Gig Primary Partition) with XP (20Gig partition). I recently used GParted to try and shrink the Vista Partition size and increase the XP partition size, since I need more XP space and rarely use Vista. While running the GParted shrink on the Vista partition overnight, I experienced a power outage, and the laptop died while the shrink was still processing. This effectively ruined my Vista Partition.

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Guest [Entry]

Used ERD Commander to recover key files, and then formatted the system and reinstalled XP. By no means elegant, but effective when you simply NEED to get back up and running.
Guest [Entry]

"I've just had to do exactly the same. I found this post helpful:
how-to-make-windows-bootloader-the-default

From the above, what I did was:

1)Boot from XP CD, select recovery console
2)Run fixboot
3)Run fixmbr
4)Restart

Worked fine"