corrupted boot files

[cutdeep]

Hi. I will try to get this in simple as I can.
I have vista home prem. on laptop, acer 5420 4 gig ram, T58 proc's
1.____The drive won't start, boot sector is corrupt. Can I....
can I slave this drive & put the install disk in the cp & copy the boot sector
from the disk to the slaved vista home prem program?
What copy command? dos dummy...
I have already slaved the drive & I deleted the corrupt boot files, right or wrong I did it.
My Vista install disks do NOT have repair on them.
I have downloaded numerous "Repair disks" & they will not boot. Only thing I could get to boot was
a win7 repair disk as I understand that vista & win7 have somewhat interchangeable bits & bytes.
I have run bootrec.exe to no avail & chkdsk/f and a few others.
This drive has a lot of stuff on it & don't really want to start over.
below is probably why I cannot edit the boot sector files..
2._____ I have files that are locked & I did not lock them, how do I remove this? I saw this when I was doing a virus scan 80% of the files are locked, I think it to be a virus of some sort?
adhd & "Pathways" do not go together very well thanks for your help..I hope. cut....

 

[americancritic]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

I am not sure if this will do it but at least take a look and let me know. If it does not work we will go in another direction.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/205005-boot-priority-change.html

Please post back with your results, thanks. LOL

 

[cutdeep]

Hi Thank you. Yeah that's pretty easy process there, I do not have ANY boot files on the drive. just need as I posted. I should be able to copy the files from the installation disk, like I say they don't have any sort of repair section on them, it was too soon I guess. thanks for the help. cut..
hey brenda..................?? <<<<<<

 

[usasma]

It sounds like this is an infection - so try scanning the drive with multiple antifiruse programs. Here's a list of some free one's: Free Online AntiMalware Resources (read the details at the link)

FWIW - I've had good success with MBR issues (due to the TDSS rootkit) with the Kaspersky TDSSKiller and the TrendMicro scans.

Beyond that, you'll have to use the Startup Repair disk according to these instructions (after removing any viruses): http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html
If the automated Startup Repair doesn't work, then try the Command Prompt option
From the Command Prompt try these commands:
- bootrec /fixmbr
- bootrec /fixboot
- bootrec /RebuldBcd

From this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392