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From: andrewwan1980 on 11 Jul 2008 05:22

I have Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with Vista. I resized my OS partition and
enlarged the extended partition (MEDIADIRECT). I then created a new
logical partition (D: which will hold my personal files).

On restart Vista automatically repaired my MBR because it says it was
corrupted. I lost Dell's F8 OEM Factory Restore Image. I really wanted
this so I got hold of someone's (Tom's) Vista MBR (they used goodell's
mbrsaver.exe).

I used mbrsaver.exe /r to replace my MBR with Tom's MBR.

Now when I boot up I get the old fashion Dell banner at the top of the
screen. It also says "2 partitions". Nothing else happens. I press F8
and it says "no bootable OS found".

Help!!!


From: andrewwan1980 on 11 Jul 2008 17:48

I am so lucky to have repaired my laptop all by myself.

I used Windows Vista DVD bootrec to fix the mbr.. and this seems to
have done it.

But my partition table it a bit messed up. However I use ptedit (via
bootable CD) to hide/unhide my DATA & MEDIADIRECT partitions, and was
able to rebuild Dell's F8 Factory Restore Image.


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