Dual boot nightmare - URGENT

[discoguru]

I had installed Fedora 13 on an unused partition of my ATA hard-drive yesterday. The primary OS here was Windows Vista.

Anyway, everything was working fne for coupla hours after which I had to restart F13 for some reason. This is when all the trouble began ..

Fedora wouldn't boot cause of some "power issues" - there were none. Windows Vista wouldn't boot because "BootMGR was missing"

I figured if I removed Fedora using the live CD - format the partition, it would help. It didn't. Well, atleast the partition got formatted. I tried re-installing F13 from the live CD but it doesn't finish the process - saying a command, something to do with 'shutdown' is not valid.

I tried repairing Vista from the Installation DVD but it is unable to do so.

Right now, on rebooting the computing, I enter the 'grub' console. I tried using grub commands to boot "Windows" from the (hd0,0) partition like thus,

grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
grub> makeactive
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot

But it still maintains that "BootMGR is missing" .. So, all I have now is the live CD. I need help. Fast. Please. :(

[marriedto51]

I haven't seen the "BootMGR is missing" myself, but there is lots about how to fix it online (assuming you are not seeing it as a result of disk failure...).

As for Fedora, can you post what exactly fails when you try to install?

[stevea]

Stoat, Lord of the Boot may be sleeping.

I'll suggest you search any posts he's made on the topic.

My first guess is to boot any Win install media and run the utility for installation correction (is it chkdisk?).

[glennzo]

Try booting Windows from (hd0,1) using the same method you used in your original post.

[forkbomb]

URGENT, eh? That's even more important than urgent! :rolleyes: