Props to Vista Repair

[One4yu2c]

My main machine runs a tri-boot setup (XP, Vista, Ubuntu), and after playing around with some ACHI settings in my BIOS this morning, all three OSes were consequently rendered dead. Attempting to boot either XP or Vista would yield a winload.exe error, and Ubuntu claimed it couldn't find a partition.

The cure? Popped in the Vista installation disc, selected Repair, and ran the Startup Repair option. About a minute later, all three OSes were back in business. Pretty impressive, especially considering Ubuntu's Grub Boot Loader runs the show, and that too was fixed.

[Parker]

Thats so cool!! The same thing happened to my dads laptop.
He got another hard drive for it, and somethin got messed up... for a reason we don't know why....
But he couldn't boot into Vista, which had everything he had been working on for the past 3 months of his new job (his boss also bought him the laptop)... so he thought he was screwed and was going nuts...

So I got our vista install disc, remembering that I had seen something about Repairing on the disc before, (my dad had no idea what I was doing here, he still thought he was a gonner)... so I popped it in, hit repair, and 5 minutes later it booted into Vista.
It was really really funny to see my dads expression when he heard the Vista startup sound.... he was in the other room, it was hilarious!!
I mean, he was so happy I could have asked for $200 payment and he wouldn't care lol!!

But that is one feature that I REALLY like about Vista, er the vista install disc.

[Quakindude]

Luckily, I haven't had need of this yet. But it's refreshing to know that it will work if I do. I'm also running XP Pro, Vista and Ubuntu 8.04 on the main rig now that it's all rebuilt.

[stinger608]

awesome One4!!! I haven't had to use it, knock on wood, but have known it was there.
Haven't even had to use it on a customers system yet. But I am sure I will soon enough