Each time I reboot i get "BOORMGR missing , hit ctrl-alt-del". does this how do the OS installed on the hards drive. Im think that my hard drive has crashed any ideas on how to verify that the hard drive is gone.
View 4 RepliesI am attempting to fix the BootMGR is missing, but have ran every bootrec.exe /command they offer, plus the startup repair gives me the error that it cannot be repaired automatically.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI an running VISTA-32 and when trying to boot-up I get the 'bootmgr is missing' andpress cont/del/alt to continue...round and round back to same it goes. Have tried to repair with MS system disk but still the same Is the problem in the BIOS, or will a Clean Install correct the problem? I would experiment to figure it out myself but have already spent most of a day dinking with it!(Probably if I have to do a Clean install I will load Vista-64)
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy services were offered by my father to a guy to install a dual boot on his system. I have done this procedure before so I felt fairly comfortable doing it on a system belonging to a business. However, mid dual boot procedure I start recieving BootMGR Missing Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to reboot. Immediatly I hit google; however, all given solutions prove to be negative in fixing. The gentalman was supposed to have backed up his system for me, the words out of his mouth are "I'm doing as we speak". Vista came preinstalled so I have no Vista Home Premium x64 disks. So, I call up the guy and he says somethings came up and he couldn't make them but what ever I do make sure I get vista working again, don't lose his stuff. Now it's forget the dual boot just get vista back, but this damn BootMGR won't stop popping up. I'm at a loss of things to do.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've tried to run System Restore, but it says that there are no restore points, which is odd as I've not turned this off.
In System Repair there are no Operating Systems listed.
I downloaded a Vista 32 disk via ImgBrn and have tried to run that, but I'm hitting walls.
I don't really have any files on the Gateway laptop, the kids just use it for homework and iTunes surfing the net.
I get this BOOTMGR missing message at startup and with some Googling I found it to be a common issue. So I tried the solution suggested by a ton of differnt sites - startup with the Vista DVD and choose the Repair option. The problem is that at the next step, Windows Vista doesn't show up as an OS in the System Recovery Options window! It's just blank so obviously when I pick "Startup Repair" nothing happens. It also says "If you don't see your OS, click on Load Drivers to load drivers for your hard drive." But if I do this I have no idea where to look and what to look for!
View 9 Replies View Relatedwas recently partitioning my friends toshbia Salitle laptop (P05-S6177) but something went wrong it could not find a file so we canceled it now i have a error message saying BOOTMGR is missing. Things ive tried Bootrec.exe including /bootfix/rebuildbcd i downloaded vista recovery cds tryed doing automatic repairs none of these are working And also vista came reinstalled so i do not have the serial key to reinstall it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy computer won't boot. Bootmgr is missing and when I put in my Vista CD it does not give me an OS to choose from. What is wrong and what can I do. Maybe it's a bad Hard Drive?
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy PC has two hard drives. Windows gave me the option on boot up of proceeding with either Windows XP or Windows Vista home basic which worked fine. I then Ultimate 32 bit over the XP installation and again all seemed ok. However, the other morning I switched on the pc and got the dreaded Bootmgr is missing message. I have tried fixing using the vista disc but when it says select the OS to repair nothing is showing. If i click next and then choose the repair option it goes through the process and then you reboot but the problem still remains. I have also tried the command prompt options but they make no difference either. The Bios recognises both my hard drives are there ok.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently got a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, and decided to install it on a second partition on my hard drive, which i did. It lasted for two weeks, until i attempted to boot up one day and the message, BOOTMGR is missing, appeared on the screen. How do i solve this problem, preferably without losing data.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI messed up big time. I was increasing my virtual memory in my PC and when i was there set my C: to active. When i rebooted my PC i got a BOOTMGR is missing. So i went into repair via Vista installation disks and through the command prompt typed 'Bootsec /fixboot' then rebooted.
Then it said booting but didn't move. Then i decided to give up and do a reinstall, at expanding files i got the error Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation. Error Code 0x8007000.
We have a laptop at our school which stopped booting up. The day before we played a movie on it and there was no problem. But the laptop stopped booting up that day and since no one ever managed to make it boot up. It displays BOOTMGR is missing Press CTRL+DEL+ALT to restart when turned on. We have a bios password set up on the PC. Pc- Doctor check up test fails at SMBIOS:Standards Test. OS: Windows Vista Basic Model: Lenova 3000 N200 and the BIOS supervisor password is missing.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently tried to restore windows vista to original factory settings from the Recovery partition that came with my computer. However, I mistakenly made the recovery partition active because I thought that was part of the process. Now the computer is trying to boot from the wrong partition and thus saying things like "BOOTMGR missing press alt ctr del to restart" I do not have a recovery disk or the original installation. I have a recovery disk from another computer that I thought was going to work but when it showed me the recovery options it said it was incompatible with this machine. Is there some way I can access a command prompt so I can reset the correct partition through diskpart or something similar?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI just did a fresh install and sp1 and my Windows folder is 27gb. is this normal? it has been sinse vista released since i rebuilt the box but dont remember it being so huge.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to import an OE6 Identity from a second hard drive that had been previously used as the boot drive for my computer, on which I was running XP and using Outlook Express 6 (OE6). I rebuilt the computer with a fresh installation of Windows Vista on a brand new hard drive. Now I am trying to set up Windows Mail and tried "File | Import | Messages | Outlook Express 6" to transfer the old files over, but on the "Specify Location" window the "Import mail from an OE6 Identity" option was greyed out and not given as an option. So it won't let me point to the old hard drive Itentities folder to import the old folders and message files.
I couldn't load Vista as an upgrade to XP because I was going from 32 bit to a 64 bit sytem. So during the installation, Vista didn't recognize I had a previous load. I think Vista is too smart thinking I don't need the option so it isn't offering it.
Im new to vista and have looked over this forum but cant seem to find an answer to my issue...which is: I open "Computer" then press on "Searches" (on the left) and then open "Everywhere" which returns 5,000 results...PLEASE how do i clear this list. I have rebuilt the index after removing ALL folders etc to index...now displays ZERO indexed items.
I have then turned indexing off completely on all drives (right click/properties/untick indexing option and select ALL files and subfolders)...and via admin tools/services/windows search (disabled after stopping service) I have rebooted and still thousands of results come up under: Searches/Everywhere Its driving me nuts
Try this:
Boot the Vista dvd to sytem recovery options command prompt.
Type:
notepad , then press enter.
Notepad will pop up. Click File> Save.
In the drop down flap , navigate to Computer and double click it.
Rt click the compressed drive>Properties>Untick Compress this drive to save space>Apply>OK.
Might take a while to uncompress...
It says Bootmgr is compressed...
What do I do?
i have been running windows vista on my laptop for the past 8 months with no problems.... recentley i did something really bad and compressed my hard drive and it would no longer boot. So after much searching on the net i found something about bootmgr fix through dos, which i did but that did not work. Someone suggested slaving the hard drive to another machine which i did and it uncompressed..WAHEY.....or so i thought . When i put it back in the laptop it said Bootmgr is compressed so i put the vista disk and ran the startup repair.
this seemed to work for the first boot then on the second nothing happened it just would not boot so i put in the vista disc and an error message appeared, something along the lines of a hardware change has happened since the last boot and windows could not find the drivers. the hardware in question is the cd/dvd rewriter.......................so my problem is now how do i install vista on the harddrive when i can not get the disc to run in the drive? p.s i have formatted the hard drive so it is a clean install and RC1 of vista which i have will seem to run (have only tried it to see if it gets further than the real version)
i bought my comp with vista. so i dont have vista dvd so how am i suppose to fix without it?
View 5 Replies View Relatedi boot this error message appears: BootMGR is compressed. Press Ctrl Alt Del to Restart. Tried system restore, startup repair, even a trick on CMD to open firefox, but when i am about to open firefox, it says it cant open the program.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi keep getting this error message everytime i try to press ctrl+alt+del.. which is what it says to do.. i didnt compress my hard drive. i have no idea whats going on! and i dont have the OS disk to reboot my computer. what do i do?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am getting a 1TB external harddrive and was wondering weather I could basically copy the whole of my C: drive including the OS to it. I also want to boot straight from the external drive. I also do not really care if it is'nt recommended lol. If this is possible would it also be possible to dual-boot with XP? I have both install disks for Vista and XP and I am willing to buy software.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was about to order a new harddrive since mine has failed. But then I decided to look inside one more time, and found that there are two harddrives in there. I never used he second one at all even though it was always there (i figured it was just one harddrive split in two and never needed the extra space). So I decided to switch the harddrive cords since one was hard to get to and because I have no idea which is the one I was using and which one I never used. I used my recovery disks on it and it seemed like everything was going fine. Then to test it, I shut down the computer then turned it back on 5 minutes later. Then I got stuck on the black screen with blinking "_", and eventually it says failed to boot disk please insert system disk.
so my questions are:
*Did switching the cords make the secondary harddrive the main one,
*Does this mean both harddrives have failed?
*Are my system files corrupt?
i have a maxtor 250gb external harddrive, this morning it was workin perfectly now computer will not recognise it as being there even though the light is on, i have tried, unplugging and plugging back in lots of times but still not working,
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have used the same external harddrive for over a year but suddenly my computer cant se what on it. It has the letter "N" but shows as raw. Its strange becours it works fine on XP pro and it did work fine on this comp before. Anyone have a clue?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I power on my PC running Vista and having a huge engine, the first approx. 30 minutes something is accessing my harddrive. It sounds as a program is constan tly reading and or writing to the drive, slowing down the entire system. I am using the avast virus protecting, but shut down what I don't need (I have no virus), the indexing I have also closed, and I am not running the Sidepanel (closed down a few days ago). Looking at the joblist I can see no processes using more than 2%, however the disk is used 48% (as shown in the sidepanel). Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to cure this? The PC is a Medion bought late last year. It is my first PC with Vista.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI think I broke something big time. I can't get into my computer with that and I don't want to format since I have basically everything on that computer. When I boot up I get a message saying:BOOTMGR is compressed Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart. I have an 80 gig that I am not using.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAnd i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is doing
nothing.
I have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also the superper frech thing but still it is running at 100%.
if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running at 100%.
i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file on the desktop to my documents folder.
I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and again still running at 100% all the time the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on task manager.
(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am guess it is something to do with vista)
Me being me didn't read the instructions properly on the fact on how it does auto backups. So I partitioned the drive in half, now I cannot get the full 1TB back. I have so far tried deleting it, and then tried to extend the first half of it back, but it keeps coming up with just unallocated space
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have attached a second Sata harddrive to my mainboard and vista cant seem to allocate the drive as it claims it is unreadable. I have tried this with 2 different new drives (both 1tb) and still can not allocate the drive.
I have downloaded the latest drivers for my gigabyte mainboard and i have gone into computer management to manage the disks but i get greyed out options. The most that i could do was set the drive to MBR. I have attached a screen shot