Boot Manager is missing win 7

hellarda

hellarda

hellarda

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Hi all,

specs first

Q6600 3.0Ghz
Striker II Formula
2GB Ram
9600GT
Samsung F1 750Gb
Seagate 1TB

right problem is, basically i had split my F1 into 180 gig partition and a 520 gig, (this was for booting win 7 RC ages ago) ive wanted to reformat it and extend the 520GB partition, so restore the disk to its physical state, however in windows i could not do this. so i got Gparted live and did it in there and also extended the other partition. so now i have a 750 gig HDD with one partition. so rebooted got an error message saying BOOTMGR is missing press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart. i had expected this so booted into the win 7 disc hit repair. Both disks were not detected and i hav no idea where the drivers are.
so anyways i clicked next without selecting HDD, then ran repair boot or whatever it is, its the first option. rebooted still same error message. hmm i thort so i went in again and used cmd to run bootsec.exe using command bootsec /nt60 ALL. thort this may hav sorted it. but alas it hadnt same error. so now i am completely stumped.

if i clicked on load drivers where it displays what HDD's its found, i could see the 2 HDD's in my computer, so they still function and they show up in the bios.

am i missing something? im completely out of ideas

feel free to ask if anything isnt clear

thanks

ali
 
have tried bootrec /fixmbr and /RebuildBcd and /fixboot however with the last two it kept saying element not found?? what does that mean?

cheeers
 
Sounds similar to the problem I had a year or two ago when removing dual boot Vista/Ubuntu. No matter what I did to try and fix the bootloader with Vista recovery, nothing happened. I read somewhere that I had to mark the partition as active first. Once I did, Vista boot recovery was able to repair the bootloader.
 
I may well be wrong on this, but a while ago I was getting the same error (different conditions though).

I turned out to be the optical drive that was causing the problem. Once I had replaced it, I was able to repair windows without any issues what so ever.
 
i would try both of those however 1. i dont hav another dvd drive and 2 i cant get into windows to mark it as active :/

any ideas?

thanks
 
Nasty one, the win7 repair option can sometimes fix this correctly but you have to go into it several times and repeat the action sometimes 5-7 times as it can't do it all in one go.

If you have more than one HDD installed disconnect all but the one the OS is on until repair is completed - otherwise for some reason it tries to write the boot info to the wrong drive repeatedly and never gets fixed.
 
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