If the boot loader to your Windows Server 2008 machine gets corrupted or deleted for whatever reason, it really is a painstaking process to get it fixed. The boot loader to my machine got deleted somehow 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 process for Server 2008 is similar.<\/p>\n
Due to the lack of recovery tools on the Server 2008 installation CD, the boot loader must be rebuilt manually.<\/p>\n
For this guide, I’m going to assume your installation has a drive letter of C:.<\/p>\n
Insert the Server 2008 installation CD into your DVD-ROM. Restart your computer and boot from the CD.<\/p>\n
Choose to repair your computer, then open the command prompt.<\/p>\n
At the command prompt, use the following commands:<\/p>\n
c:<\/p>\n
cd boot<\/p>\n
bootsect \/nt60 c: \/force \/mbr<\/p>\n
bootrec \/rebuildbcd<\/p>\n
After using the “bootrec \/rebuldbcd” command, you will be prompted to accept a Windows installation. Accept the installation, then wait for the process to finish. Once it’s done, reboot your comptuer and you should have a boot loader ready to go.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
mkdir c:boot<\/p>\n
copy e:boot* c:boot<\/p>\n
Afterwards, just use the boot restore commands to rebuild the bootloader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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