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well i'm using my laptop to type this right now, and i didn't lose any of my personal data since the robocopy-ing worked. sweet! the only thing i forgot to back up was my favorites, which isn't a huge deal because i'll slowly build them back up as i use websites. i installed easy bcd and did...

thanks CG, i used robocopy to back up my music, pictures, and documents to my partitioned recovery drive, i think. d:\ is where i put all of it and it all shows up when i use dir d:\ so i think it's all backed up. now i just want to go through my program files and write down everything i've...

all i know is when i use dir c:\boot or d:\boot or e:\boot, bootsect.exe doesn't show up anywhere. i even tried x:\. that file just doesn't exist anywhere on my computer. is it possible i have a bad startup repair cd or somethign?

CG - I've tried C, D, and E already to no avail. is there anything else I could try? It's like that bootsect.exe is missing or something. Addendum: well i still haven't had any luck finding bootsect.exe. i did however stumble upon robocopy after reading about xcopy on some random CP...

the ">" is automatically inserted in my CP. I'll give this a try when I get a minute. Thanks for the suggestions!

i'm having the same problem, it won't run the D:\boot\bootsect.exe/nt60all/force command. i only have a c, d, and e drive according to CP (i've tried every letter) and none of them work for that command. I'm getting "boot\bootsect.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command...

Ok so if I don't get it right it shouldn't mess anything up, just not work. Good to know. Thanks, I'll try it when I get home! Addendum: Ok I started going through the walkthrough. It still won't repair automatically, so I went to Step 3: Manually Repairing the Vista Bootloader. I'm...

Thanks Makaveli, I printed out the "Recovering the Windows Vista Bootloader from the DVD" guide. Since I already tried the Auto Repair, I'll move to the Command Prompt section. My only question is how do I know what to replace "x" with? Whenever I hit F12 to pick the boot location, will it...

Hello everyone, I'm a newbie here and really computer illiterate for the most part, I CAN follow directions though. :) I have a 3-4 month old ASUS G1S-B1 that came with Vista Home Premium. A few weeks ago my gf was using it and the battery died. She got the charger and restarted it, no big...