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Hi,<br />
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1. Put the Windows Vista installation disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer. <br />
2. Press a key when you are prompted. <br />
3. Select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard or an input method, and then click Next. <br />
4. Click Repair your computer. <br />
5. Click the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next. <br />
6. In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt. <br />
7. Type Bootrec.exe, and then press ENTER. <br />
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and check this help online: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392</a>
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thank you pcfreaker, i did what you kindly mentioned already as i mentioned in my post ;)
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I request this to be changed as I have already mentioned that all the steps that the expert pcfreaker kindly described were already taken by me in my question. <br />
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And because it didn't give me anything new I didn't accept the question.
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I have two HD one has vista installaed on it, the other is clean.<br />
<br />
I tried to install Linux on the other one (The clean one) the installation went fine, and everything seemed working.<br />
<br />
When at the grub menu I selected Windows but it didn't boot up, I had similar problem before so I did the same steps as before:<br />
<br />
1- Boot from Vista DVD.<br />
2- Select Repair<br />
3- Select command prompt<br />
<br />
But the box that shows the HD available did not show any. When at the command prompt I was able to change to the HD that has Vista and everything on that HD seemed there. I tried the following<br />
<br />
1- bootrec /fixmbr<br />
<br />
it display a succeful message but when I rebooted nothing changed.<br />
<br />
2- bootrec /rebuildbcd<br />
I got this message<br />
the volume does not contain a recognized file system vista<br />
<br />
Then I tried the following:<br />
<br />
1- Used diskpart<br />
2- selected vista partition made it active<br />
3- Exited diskparted and reboot<br />
<br />
I got the same results, nothing so far worked for me.<br />
<br />
Any help?<br />
<br />
Thanks
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I have two HD one has vista installaed on it, the other is clean.

I tried to install Linux on the other one (The clean one) the installation went fine, and everything seemed working.

When at the grub menu I selected Windows but it didn't boot up, I had similar problem before so I did the same steps as before:

1- Boot from Vista DVD.
2- Select Repair
3- Select command prompt

But the box that shows the HD available did not show any. When at the command prompt I was able to change to the HD that has Vista and everything on that HD seemed there. I tried the following

1- bootrec /fixmbr

it display a succeful message but when I rebooted nothing changed.

2- bootrec /rebuildbcd
I got this message
the volume does not contain a recognized file system vista

Then I tried the following:

1- Used diskpart
2- selected vista partition made it active
3- Exited diskparted and reboot

I got the same results, nothing so far worked for me.

Any help?

Thanks

the volume does not contain a recognized file system

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Windows Vista

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