Vista MBR etc

Just wondering a few things:

1) In XP to fix the boot sector or the MBR you booted off the CD and went to
the first repair prompt and into a DOS look alike in order to run a few
commands to fix those things and of course check for disk errors etc.

2) To do a repair install in XP you booted off the CD and went to the second
repair prompt and chose it to do a repair install.

I have Vista Business upgrade so if i need to do either of the things above,
how do you do that with Vista Business (or any Vista, really), please?
Thanks.

"Diamontina Cocktail" <lrb@australia.com>

> Just wondering a few things:
>
> 1) In XP to fix the boot sector or the MBR you booted off the CD and went
> to the first repair prompt and into a DOS look alike in order to run a few
> commands to fix those things and of course check for disk errors etc.
>
> 2) To do a repair install in XP you booted off the CD and went to the
> second repair prompt and chose it to do a repair install.
>
> I have Vista Business upgrade so if i need to do either of the things
> above, how do you do that with Vista Business (or any Vista, really),
> please? Thanks.


There is no recovery console or repair installation in Vista. There is the
Vista Repair Environment reached by booting the Vista DVD. A variety of
repairs are available including Bootrec.exe, System Restore, Startup Repair
and Restoring from a backup.

How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to
troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us

For more info on the repair tool from Start | Help and Support search on
Windows recovery environment or startup repair.


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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]