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"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
Greetings,
My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. Thanks. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
Jackson wrote:
Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. Thanks. Tutorial. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/ Post back if that approach isn't working. You need an optical disc of some sort, to boot off of, to do that procedure. When the laptop was new, the computer would prompt you on the screen, to make recovery CD/DVD discs. One of those discs, is a 200MB boot CD that gets you to the recovery console. And the pictures in the above, look similar to the recovery console. (On my laptop, I made four DVDs and one CD, and the CD is for fixing this problem. I burned that media, as soon as I got my Acer laptop.) That means, there are two disc types you could boot from. A 3GB+ DVD with official Windows install on it. (The laptop doesn't come with one of those.) Look for X17-24209.iso in Google, to find copies of the official Windows installer DVD that comes from the digitalriver commercial site. The X17-24209.iso is Home Premium X64 patched to SP1 service pack level. A user who left automatic updates running, is likely patched up to SP1. To get to the recovery console, you don't absolutely have to use that, but Microsoft has caused some of the other downloadable images of the 200MB thing, to be removed. The 200MB recovery CD, the one the laptop told you to burn, is a lot less hassle. But if the computer is broken, and you didn't burn one of those, then you're kinda in a spot. *Note - startup repairs don't always work. I broke my Windows 7 once, and repeating the above repair procedure three times in a row, did not fix it. I had to restore from backups to get a working laptop. Good luck, Paul |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:32:54 -0500, Jackson wrote:
Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. He is trying to install improperly. Tell him that he has to boot from the installation DVD and follow the prompts for a clean installation. And by the way, he did not need to first format the drive. If he booted from the installation DVD and followed the prompts for a clean installation, it would have done it for him. And by the way, reinstalling Windows because of a virus infection is almost always way overkill. There are some exceptions, but usually removing the virus is much easier and just as good. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
Paul wrote:
Jackson wrote: Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. Thanks. Tutorial. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/ Post back if that approach isn't working. You need an optical disc of some sort, to boot off of, to do that procedure. When the laptop was new, the computer would prompt you on the screen, to make recovery CD/DVD discs. One of those discs, is a 200MB boot CD that gets you to the recovery console. And the pictures in the above, look similar to the recovery console. (On my laptop, I made four DVDs and one CD, and the CD is for fixing this problem. I burned that media, as soon as I got my Acer laptop.) That means, there are two disc types you could boot from. A 3GB+ DVD with official Windows install on it. (The laptop doesn't come with one of those.) Look for X17-24209.iso in Google, to find copies of the official Windows installer DVD that comes from the digitalriver commercial site. The X17-24209.iso is Home Premium X64 patched to SP1 service pack level. A user who left automatic updates running, is likely patched up to SP1. To get to the recovery console, you don't absolutely have to use that, but Microsoft has caused some of the other downloadable images of the 200MB thing, to be removed. The 200MB recovery CD, the one the laptop told you to burn, is a lot less hassle. But if the computer is broken, and you didn't burn one of those, then you're kinda in a spot. *Note - startup repairs don't always work. I broke my Windows 7 once, and repeating the above repair procedure three times in a row, did not fix it. I had to restore from backups to get a working laptop. Good luck, Paul Thank you so much for your detailed responce Paul. Unfortunately when my buddy wiped the drive he reformatted over the recovery partition. I suppose I should say that it's dual core Intel with 4gb of ram. Thak you again. Will give your suggestions a try. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:32:54 -0500, Jackson wrote: Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. He is trying to install improperly. Tell him that he has to boot from the installation DVD and follow the prompts for a clean installation. And by the way, he did not need to first format the drive. If he booted from the installation DVD and followed the prompts for a clean installation, it would have done it for him. And by the way, reinstalling Windows because of a virus infection is almost always way overkill. There are some exceptions, but usually removing the virus is much easier and just as good. Thanks Ken. Overkill is kinda what I thought. Unfortunately the bootmgr error is showing up at the start of the installation and then the hard drive won't take the install at all. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:38:14 -0500, Jackson wrote:
Ken Blake wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:32:54 -0500, Jackson wrote: Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. He is trying to install improperly. Tell him that he has to boot from the installation DVD and follow the prompts for a clean installation. And by the way, he did not need to first format the drive. If he booted from the installation DVD and followed the prompts for a clean installation, it would have done it for him. And by the way, reinstalling Windows because of a virus infection is almost always way overkill. There are some exceptions, but usually removing the virus is much easier and just as good. Thanks Ken. Overkill is kinda what I thought. Unfortunately the bootmgr error is showing up at the start of the installation and then the hard drive won't take the install at all. Then he's installing incorrectly. Again, he has to boot from the installation DVD and follow the prompts for a clean installation. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On 11/25/2013 02:32 PM, Jackson wrote:
Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. Thanks. Since he seems to have a partial installation , there is no way to repair it. A new install really goes quite fast... Just boot with the DVD and delete /all/ partitions...then select "install" and the installer will do the rest. After the reboot , there will be a few simple questions and that's about it. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:17:57 -0700 "Ken Blake" wrote
in article On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:38:14 -0500, Jackson wrote: Ken Blake wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:32:54 -0500, Jackson wrote: Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. He is trying to install improperly. Tell him that he has to boot from the installation DVD and follow the prompts for a clean installation. And by the way, he did not need to first format the drive. If he booted from the installation DVD and followed the prompts for a clean installation, it would have done it for him. And by the way, reinstalling Windows because of a virus infection is almost always way overkill. There are some exceptions, but usually removing the virus is much easier and just as good. Thanks Ken. Overkill is kinda what I thought. Unfortunately the bootmgr error is showing up at the start of the installation and then the hard drive won't take the install at all. Then he's installing incorrectly. Again, he has to boot from the installation DVD and follow the prompts for a clean installati The error indicates that he's trying to boot from the wrong device. Booting from the CD should work ok. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:49:08 -0700, Ken1943 wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:08:27 -0600, philoÂ* wrote: On 11/25/2013 02:32 PM, Jackson wrote: Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. Thanks. Since he seems to have a partial installation , there is no way to repair it. A new install really goes quite fast... Just boot with the DVD and delete /all/ partitions...then select "install" and the installer will do the rest. After the reboot , there will be a few simple questions and that's about it. He didn't "wipe" the drive otherwise he wouldn't have this stuff happen in the first place. KenW I'm glad all you folks can offer such helpful advice when we really know nothing about what is going on: 1. What was the original hd layout. My Dell has a small Dell utility partition, a recovery partition then the main os partition, which I later split. The machine boots to the recovery partition (marked active) 2. He wiped the drive, but what did he really wipe, formatting won't wipe the drive just a partition - we don't know. 3. From what is he trying to boot, is the DVD the one of a set supplied with the new machine, I have that (never used it) and that will do a complete recovery including a re-partition. But OEM's don't usually supply such things these days, although I believe they will supply on request. Once your friend gets the machine up and running, do make an image backup of the os and those other needed partitions. Macrium supply a freebie that does all that in one operation. Remember to make a recovery CD or DVD, you only do that once. Even if when you can restore to as purchased, you then have to reload programs, updates etc. If one is going to do image backups, the question arises, do we need that recovery and utility partition. Personally I leave them as is, like I said, the machine boots to the recovery partition. With today's large hd's, saving space isn't much of a consideration. What can be a problem is stealing two of the four available primary partitions but there are usually ways to get around this. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:26:27 +0000 (UTC), Dave wrote:
I'm glad all you folks can offer such helpful advice when we really know nothing about what is going on: 1. What was the original hd layout. My Dell has a small Dell utility partition, a recovery partition then the main os partition, which I later split. The machine boots to the recovery partition (marked active) What's the purpose of booting to a recovery partition? -- Char Jackson |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:26:27 +0000 (UTC), Dave wrote: I'm glad all you folks can offer such helpful advice when we really know nothing about what is going on: 1. What was the original hd layout. My Dell has a small Dell utility partition, a recovery partition then the main os partition, which I later split. The machine boots to the recovery partition (marked active) What's the purpose of booting to a recovery partition? The bootloader is on the Recovery Partition which includes the instructions to load Windows. It also provides the ability to use the F8 option to recover to factory condition. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
Jackson wrote:
Greetings, My friend picked up a nasty virus so he wiped the drive and tried to reinstall Win7. Now he's getting the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing" error when trying to install Win7 again so it won't even load. I've searched that it can be repaired but I'm wondering if it can be repaired/restored from the WIN7 disc before attempting to install the OS. Can't seem to find the answer. Thanks. Just wanted to let you all know that bootrec /fixboot did the trick from the repair command prompt. Thank you all for your suggestions. You guys are great. |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:11:02 -0500, "...winston"
wrote: Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:26:27 +0000 (UTC), Dave wrote: I'm glad all you folks can offer such helpful advice when we really know nothing about what is going on: 1. What was the original hd layout. My Dell has a small Dell utility partition, a recovery partition then the main os partition, which I later split. The machine boots to the recovery partition (marked active) What's the purpose of booting to a recovery partition? The bootloader is on the Recovery Partition which includes the instructions to load Windows. It also provides the ability to use the F8 option to recover to factory condition. Interesting, thanks. Like the OP, I also have a Dell, but the bootloader apparently wasn't on the recovery partition because I blew that partition away without causing any boot issues. -- Char Jackson |
"Bootmgr is Missing" Question
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:33:41 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:11:02 -0500, "...winston" wrote: Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:26:27 +0000 (UTC), Dave wrote: I'm glad all you folks can offer such helpful advice when we really know nothing about what is going on: 1. What was the original hd layout. My Dell has a small Dell utility partition, a recovery partition then the main os partition, which I later split. The machine boots to the recovery partition (marked active) What's the purpose of booting to a recovery partition? The bootloader is on the Recovery Partition which includes the instructions to load Windows. It also provides the ability to use the F8 option to recover to factory condition. Interesting, thanks. Like the OP, I also have a Dell, but the bootloader apparently wasn't on the recovery partition because I blew that partition away without causing any boot issues. My impression is that the boot loader resides on the System partition. Or do I meant the Boot partition? Probably not, but Microsoft's nomenclature is confusing in this area. It's not of any day-to-day importance to me, so I don't bother to keep it straight... Either way, not the Recovery partition. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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