Solve : Bootsect.exe file lost?

1.	Solve : Bootsect.exe file lost?
Answer» I just got a laptop with WINDOWS Vista on it. After installing Windows XP on a separate partition, I LOST forward compatibility. I did find how to solve this problem in Microsoft's online documentation (and it can be FOUND here for people with the same problem, in case you're wondering ), so it's really not that big a deal. But I have one little problem with this: I've lost my accompanying Windows Vista installation DVD with bootsect.exe on it. Without bootsect.exe, I can't restore the Windows Vista MBR and return control to the Windows Boot Manager program. So my question is, does anyone KNOW where else I can find the bootsect.exe utility? Is it online somewhere? And if not, is there someone with the Vista installation DVD (that isn't, you know, lost somewhere in a MESSY apartment) who could give it to me? I don't want to pay a few hundred dollars for a new copy of an OS I already have just for the one file! Thanks a million in advance.Keep looking. $150+ DVD's should be very easy to find!Isn't it surprising, the amount of people who lose valuable CDs and DVDs like that, especially XP Pro CDs . . .Quote Keep looking. $150+ DVD's should be very easy to find! You would think, wouldn't you? I found that the file is included with a Vista boot assistance program, so I dl'ed the program and got the file. My laptop is now fixed despite the loss of the expensive DVD, because I'm just that good. Anyway, thanks for the help!Quote Isn't it surprising, the amount of people who lose valuable CDs and DVDs like that, especially XP Pro CDs . . . And misplace their passwords.

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I just got a laptop with WINDOWS Vista on it. After installing Windows XP on a separate partition, I LOST forward compatibility. I did find how to solve this problem in Microsoft's online documentation (and it can be FOUND here for people with the same problem, in case you're wondering ), so it's really not that big a deal. But I have one little problem with this: I've lost my accompanying Windows Vista installation DVD with bootsect.exe on it. Without bootsect.exe, I can't restore the Windows Vista MBR and return control to the Windows Boot Manager program.

So my question is, does anyone KNOW where else I can find the bootsect.exe utility? Is it online somewhere? And if not, is there someone with the Vista installation DVD (that isn't, you know, lost somewhere in a MESSY apartment) who could give it to me? I don't want to pay a few hundred dollars for a new copy of an OS I already have just for the one file!

Thanks a million in advance.Keep looking. $150+ DVD's should be very easy to find!Isn't it surprising, the amount of people who lose valuable CDs and DVDs like that, especially XP Pro CDs . . .Quote

Keep looking. $150+ DVD's should be very easy to find!

You would think, wouldn't you?

I found that the file is included with a Vista boot assistance program, so I dl'ed the program and got the file. My laptop is now fixed despite the loss of the expensive DVD, because I'm just that good. Anyway, thanks for the help!Quote

Isn't it surprising, the amount of people who lose valuable CDs and DVDs like that, especially XP Pro CDs . . .

And misplace their passwords.

Solve : Bootsect.exe file lost?

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