Winload.exe is missing or corrupt - Recover CD does not boot - Problem SOLVED!
General discussion After a power failure the Master Boot Record (MBR) got destroyed on my harddisk. My entire harddisk appeared to be an unpartitioned area. All partitions were gone! ***** Shock! ***** ***** Panic! ***** As software developer I have a multi-boot system with several operating systems and a huge data partition. I was not willing to install all this anew. 1.) So I searched for a tool that may recover the MBR. And I found "EaseUs Partition Recovery". http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/EASEUS-Partition-Recovery.shtml I put the corrupted disk into another computer. This program scanned my disk and found all partitions within one minute. It allowed me to enable the partitions and I saw that all data was still there. And the best of all: This program did that great work for free! 2.) After reinstalling the Boot Manager I noticed that the Windows XP partitions were still running fine while Windows Vista did no