boot manger missing?

Monster ninja · 11 Apr 2011 at 18:16

when i boot my my i get
"boot mgr missing"

i but the windows disk in click repair- no problems found? click restart and she works fine?

i am running windows 7- home-64bit whats the problem/s and how do i fix her? thanks

pcAnywhere · 11 Apr 2011 at 18:25

Do you have 2 HDDS? Did you have 2 HDDs installed when you installed Win 7?

Monster ninja · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:22

erm i might have done? i dont think so i have always unpluged them in the past, i have formatted the other week and i cant remeber unpluging them? but i think i would have? 3 do have 3 spinpoints

Semple · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:26

Came across this problem when reinstalling my windows whilst having multiple drives plugged in. Solution was to have the one drive plugged in that i was installing the o/s on and plug the others in after it was finished.

Monster ninja · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:31

so reinstall windows?

Stoner81 · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:39

Unplug all your HDD's except for the one which you wish to use as your OS drive and then install Windows once done plug your drives back in again.

Stoner81.

Monster ninja · 11 Apr 2011 at 19:52

will do

Monster ninja · 13 Apr 2011 at 03:30

works fine now after format

EDIT; same problem

pcAnywhere · 13 Apr 2011 at 06:07

Good news. Windows 7 can be awkward sometimes!

Monster ninja · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:02

pluged in my 2 other hard drives, and i got the "boot mgr missing" again unpluged them and she worked fine.... i hate computers... so is there somthing wrong with one of my other drives?

Semple · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:08

Have a try of the three methods on here..
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/windows-7-bootmgr-is-missing-help/8bb148bc-8035-4847-9696-888f7a0a9720

There could be something on one of the drives that's causing it to not boot. Have you tried it with just one of the drives? Just to rule out if it's one drive or not.

I think my problem was caused from the VM o/s's i had stored on one of the drives.

Monster ninja · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:17

tryed them

I think what i am going to do is backup what is on those drives ( most of whats on there is backup anyway and then format them

Monster ninja · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:29

winows repair finds no problems ect... i really hate computers now!

Semple · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:31

Did you try booting it with only one of the other drives plugged in? Try it with both and see if it's only one drive that's causing it not to boot.

Monster ninja · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:53

Semple said:
Did you try booting it with only one of the other drives plugged in? Try it with both and see if it's only one drive that's causing it not to boot.

yes i tryed that thanks mate,

looks like its my smaller backup drive thats the problem... anyways i dont need this drive anymore so its being removed

thanks dude

Pukk@pie · 13 Apr 2011 at 15:07

I think that in the past I managed to fix this problem by altering the hard drive priority in the bios.

Monster ninja · 14 Apr 2011 at 19:13

one of my small back up drives seams to be dead.... oh well shes working now