The OpenSuse installation was very easy and did almost everything for me, apart from filling out my name etc.  It shrank my windows partition, and created a load more to use itself.  When I booted my laptop up in the morning, I got straight into my new operating system and started playing.  When I realised my wireless card was not installed by default, I thought I should switch over to windows and get any drivers I needed.  I restarted my machine and got the boot loader, and selected Vista.  Much to my horror, I was thrown straight back into the OpenSuse installation.

After hunting around online for solutions, I finally found the app bcdedit.exe stored in the system32 directory on my windows install (I was running repair mode off the Vista CD).  Running this, I could see all of my boot options and the paths they were using.  I noticed that the path for windows was still “\grldr.mbr” instead of the windows default “\windows\system32\winload.exe”.

Using the following command in command prompt, I managed to restore my Windows Boot Sequence.

bcdedit /set {default} path “\windows\system32\Winload.exe”

{default} should be replaced with the Guid of the loader you need, however {default} should work for most windows installs.