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If the boot loader to your Windows Server 2008 machine gets corrupted or deleted for whatsoever reason, it in truth is a painstaking procedure to get it fixed. The boot loader to my machine got deleted in some way while I was resizing partitions. After scouring the web, I could not find anything on rebuilding the boot loader for Windows Server 2008. All I could find were instructions to restore a Windows Vista boot loader but luckily, the procedure for Server 2008 is similar. Due to the lack of recovery tools on the Server 2008 installation CD, the boot loader will have to be rebuilt manually. For this guide, I’m going to assume your installation has a drive letter of C:. Insert the Server 2008 installation CD into your DVD-ROM. Restart your computer and boot from the CD. Choose to fix your computer, then open the command prompt. At the command prompt, use the following commands: c: cd boot bootsect /nt60 c: /force /mbr bootrec /rebuildbcd After using the “bootrec /rebuldbcd” command, you will be prompted to receive a Windows installation. Accept the installation, then wait for the routine to finish. Once it’s done, reboot your comptuer and you will have to have a boot loader ready to go. If you do not have a “boot” folder in the system C: drive, then copy the “boot” folder form the Windows installation CD to the C: drive. Use the following command which assumes E: is your DVD-ROM mkdir c:boot copy e:boot* c:boot Afterwards, just use the boot restore commands to rebuild the bootloader. |
