winload.exe is missing or corrupt! Vista won't boot up!

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ripper

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i have ran every antivirus live cd known to man and no viruses, did a disk check and it is healthy, checked and repaired MBR with Paragon software live cd. but keep getting a error winload.exe is missing or corrupted, checked to see if it is on partition it is and scaned it no viruses, F8 is not an option, will not let me into advanced boot option menu to boot in safe mode or any other mode, been tackling this problem for 6 months and all i can find on the net is it maybe some editing to be done in the BCD but i need a command prompt to edit this in the windows boot manager,
i know about bootrec.exe and a few other commands to run but i can't get to a command prompt, any ideas for a fix would greatly help. i am running Vista Home Premium, 32 bit
 

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ripper said:
i have ran every antivirus live cd known to man and no viruses, did a disk check and it is healthy, checked and repaired MBR with Paragon software live cd. but keep getting a error winload.exe is missing or corrupted, checked to see if it is on partition it is and scaned it no viruses, F8 is not an option, will not let me into advanced boot option menu to boot in safe mode or any other mode, been tackling this problem for 6 months and all i can find on the net is it maybe some editing to be done in the BCD but i need a command prompt to edit this in the windows boot manager,
i know about bootrec.exe and a few other commands to run but i can't get to a command prompt, any ideas for a fix would greatly help. i am running Vista Home Premium, 32 bit
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You mention Paragon, do you have an image backed up? Paid for or free version?
 

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    Homebuilt
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    AMD Phenom II x 4 965
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    Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P
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    4GB DDR3
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    Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 TI
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
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    Phillips 19"
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    1280 x 1024
    Hard Drives
    1 x 128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD 1 x 1TB Sata 1 x 160GB IDE 1 x 2Tb WD External My Book Elite 1 x 1TB WD External My Book Elite 1 x 4TB WD External My Book
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    Thermaltake 850W XT
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    Coolermaster Storm Sniper Black Edition
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    AC-ALPINE-64PRO ARTIC COOLING
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    Microflacid Sterile
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    12 year old Compaq, cant see any of the letters anymore :)
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    ADSL2+
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    My husband and I divorced over religious differences.. He thought he was God and I didn't.
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