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title: Restore Windows 7 MBR
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layout: default
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created: 2010-07-13 23:29:17 +0200
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updated: 2010-07-13 23:29:17 +0200
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toc: false
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tags:
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- know-how
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- software
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- windows
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---
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If you installed *Windows XP* **after** *Windows 7*, you're left with the XP-MBR on your drive and thus only XP is
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booting.
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If you happen to have hardware, which produces the [Code 5](http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/code5-error.html?lang=EN)
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error upon trying to boot from the Win7-DVD, you can do the following to restore the Win7-MBR from within XP:
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1. boot into XP and insert the Win7-DVD
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1. open a *Command Prompt*
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1. navigate to the `?:\boot\` directory of the Win7-DVD (with `?` being the letter of your DVD drive)
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1. run the following command: (with `C:` being the drive where *Windows 7* is installed)
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bootsect.exe /nt60 C: /mbr
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1. reboot and use [EasyBCD](http://neosmart.net/software.php) to add *Windows XP* to the Win7-Bootloader
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<p><div class="notetip" markdown="1">
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On [unawave.de](http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/code5-error.html?lang=EN) you'll find instructions on how to
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create a Win7-DVD with the Vista-Bootloader so that you don't get the `Code 5` anymore.
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</div></p>
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