I have a Win7 RC1 and Vista 64 bit Home premium dual boot PC. The
hard drive is partitioned with two primary partitions, Win7 is the
first primary and is the active drive, and Vista is on the second
primary. The rest of the drive consists of an extended partition with
two logical drives. This has been dual booting just fine until last week.
In my attempt to clean up Win7 before upgrading to Win7 PRO I,
without realizing it's importance, deleted the boot folder on the C
drive. My plan was to install Win7 and then slowly make the migration
from my Vista install. However upon rebooting I am no longer able to
get into Vista. I get different errors depending on which fix I just
tried, winload.exe not found, registry corrupt, this sort of thing.
It was obvious to me that the boot loader had lost it's path but all
attempts to repair it, including the use of DualBootPRO, failed.
Actually, the first thing I tried was to recover my one week old
Acronis backup. I recovered both the Win 7 and Vista partitions as
well as theMBR, but surprisingly, Vista still will not boot? This
must have something to do with both Vista and Win7 claiming the C
drive upon loading but I can't figure it out. I am out of ideas, any thoughts?
