Solve : Master boot Record?

1.	Solve : Master boot Record?
Answer» Thank you Dave for all your help, Quote At this point, since I don't know what you have done with the computer, What I did was very simple I ran - Bootrec / fixmbr from the recovery console on my Vista CD - I don't know if the Trojan somehow prevented the task or for some reason the vista copy of the boot record was incompatible (I'm not sure what it is that utility does) but immediately upon reboot nothing was working properly. You can see by the logs I posted "service not loaded "came up alot. Quote I would advise you to save your important data to disks and re-format and re-install your OS I have been working on that right along. My problem now lies in the recovery program I have found it on my recovery CD, Unfortunately the program NEEDS to reboot my system in order to continue and whenever I do that the problems with my boot take over. If you don't have any further Ideas would you mind if I took this problem to another forum? And regardless thank you very much DuncanDid you TRY SETTING your BIOS to boot from the CD first and then boot with the Recovery CD in the drive? If you do not know how to set your computer to boot from CD follow the steps hereYes it is set to boot from the CD. This is a different issue. I think. Somewhere along the line I lost my factory installed recovery program from my hard drive (Gateway Recovery CENTER) Because it is not properly installed I have no recovery option on the advanced boot options menu and can not access my Recovery partition. Well I found it included on my "program and drivers" CD but it is not a bootable CD. I can run the program but the first thing it wants to do is reboot. I suspect it needs to run from its own environment? Anyway I think it might run if windows wasn't struggling to boot? I don't know maybe it has to be run from the harddrive but I don't know how to install it. You can run a Repair if you borrow a Vista disk from someone but it must be the same as what you PRESENTLY have on your computer

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Thank you Dave for all your help,
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At this point, since I don't know what you have done with the computer,

What I did was very simple I ran - Bootrec / fixmbr from the recovery console on my Vista CD - I don't know if the Trojan somehow prevented the task or for some reason the vista copy of the boot record was incompatible (I'm not sure what it is that utility does) but immediately upon reboot nothing was working properly. You can see by the logs I posted "service not loaded "came up alot.

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I would advise you to save your important data to disks and re-format and re-install your OS

I have been working on that right along. My problem now lies in the recovery program I have found it on my recovery CD, Unfortunately the program NEEDS to reboot my system in order to continue and whenever I do that the problems with my boot take over. If you don't have any further Ideas would you mind if I took this problem to another forum? And regardless thank you very much
DuncanDid you TRY SETTING your BIOS to boot from the CD first and then boot with the Recovery CD in the drive?

If you do not know how to set your computer to boot from CD follow the steps hereYes it is set to boot from the CD. This is a different issue. I think. Somewhere along the line I lost my factory installed recovery program from my hard drive (Gateway Recovery CENTER) Because it is not properly installed I have no recovery option on the advanced boot options menu and can not access my Recovery partition. Well I found it included on my "program and drivers" CD but it is not a bootable CD. I can run the program but the first thing it wants to do is reboot. I suspect it needs to run from its own environment? Anyway I think it might run if windows wasn't struggling to boot? I don't know maybe it has to be run from the harddrive but I don't know how to install it. You can run a Repair if you borrow a Vista disk from someone but it must be the same as what you PRESENTLY have on your computer

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