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.