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I managed to wipe out the boot loader for Vista yesterday.

Here’s how to restore it.

1. Boot from Vista CD.
2. Enter your language info and hit next.
3. Go to the console (bottom option on the menu that comes up).
4. Go to your CD drive.  If it’s drive E, type ‘E:\’.
5. Change to the boot directory by typing ‘cd boot’.
6. Run the bootsect command.  You can type ‘bootsect /?’ to see your options, but ultimately you’ll end up typing something like ‘bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr’.
7. Life should no longer suck after you reboot.