Hi,
I've just downloaded EasyBCD from the SystemDisk.com website and burnt the ISO OK . Booting from this I get a "EasyBCD Lite Recovery Essentials " window with 5 options including "Launch command prompt" -potentally usefull - I guess. "Attempt automated repair" option doesn't . Other options relate to System Restore. Is this all I should get? The user guides seem to have a much more detailed and useful GUI. Have I downloaded the wrong thing? Starting command prompt gives me a command prompt in X:/windows\system32>.
Background info - why I thought Easy BCD would be useful;
I've been trying for the last few weeks to resolve a problem with my sons laptop. Essentially it had Vista (64bit I believe) installed but that got corrupted ( boot sector virus I suspect ). This is an ACER laptop and so has a hidden PQSERVICE restore partition on it - no Vista CD supplied. Long story... but the ACER Alt+F10 restore process appeared to work but it then wouldn't boot into Vista - just hung with flashing cursor. - Presently I have 4 partitons on the HDD - 1) PSERVICE 2) VISTA 3) Win XP and 4) Ubuntu. These other 2 OS's were installed in attempts to "unlock" Vista. Vista is there, apparently intact but the MBR doesn't "point" to it . At the moment it boots OK to XP or Ubuntu. The Ubuntu start up boot select screen has a "Vista" option but actually starts XP.
Thanks,
Chris
I've just downloaded EasyBCD from the SystemDisk.com website and burnt the ISO OK . Booting from this I get a "EasyBCD Lite Recovery Essentials " window with 5 options including "Launch command prompt" -potentally usefull - I guess. "Attempt automated repair" option doesn't . Other options relate to System Restore. Is this all I should get? The user guides seem to have a much more detailed and useful GUI. Have I downloaded the wrong thing? Starting command prompt gives me a command prompt in X:/windows\system32>.
Background info - why I thought Easy BCD would be useful;
I've been trying for the last few weeks to resolve a problem with my sons laptop. Essentially it had Vista (64bit I believe) installed but that got corrupted ( boot sector virus I suspect ). This is an ACER laptop and so has a hidden PQSERVICE restore partition on it - no Vista CD supplied. Long story... but the ACER Alt+F10 restore process appeared to work but it then wouldn't boot into Vista - just hung with flashing cursor. - Presently I have 4 partitons on the HDD - 1) PSERVICE 2) VISTA 3) Win XP and 4) Ubuntu. These other 2 OS's were installed in attempts to "unlock" Vista. Vista is there, apparently intact but the MBR doesn't "point" to it . At the moment it boots OK to XP or Ubuntu. The Ubuntu start up boot select screen has a "Vista" option but actually starts XP.
Thanks,
Chris
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