Boot MGR is Missing

[TW]Fox · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:50

Hi guys,

Is it my time for IT issues or what?!

Rebooted my main machine this morning (Windows 7, spec in sig) after running Windows Update. It now wont boot. Gets just past POST and says:

'Boot MGR is Missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot'

I've tried running system repair using the Windows 7 disk but it says it cannot detect any problems.

Whats gone wrong now?! Can't get into the machine at all

[TW]Fox · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:51

OK back in using System Restore.

But what caused it? Is this going to happen every time I use Windows Update or what?

NathanE · 27 Sep 2009 at 10:17

I've seen this happen spontaneously before but it turned out that the machine had slightly dodgy RAM.

Could be many things that cause this though

Xez · 27 Sep 2009 at 12:16

Have a look in Event viewer it might give some clues as to why.

SinaiSound · 27 Sep 2009 at 13:16

Sure you haven't got a USB stick in it and it's trying to boot from that?

Django x2 · 27 Sep 2009 at 13:33

I had this too the other day Fox. How many HDDs do you have in your machine? I worked out it was after a WU and the machine no longer new which drive was the system, primary, bootable disk. Unplugging my 2nd drive made it boot again.

Mr-Xoc · 27 Sep 2009 at 13:42

This happened to me a while ago with Vista. It turned out to be that my phone was plugged into one of the USB ports and the bios was set to try and boot from USB. Unplugging the phone and changing the bios setting sorted it.

Mr-Xoc

[TW]Fox · 27 Sep 2009 at 16:00

Nothing plugged in and a system restore fixed it so I dont think it was a boot issue. Will try windows update again later and see what happens...

TheCrow · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:14

I got this after I upgraded last night to windows 7. For some reason it had changed my boot priority to use a different hdd.

Changed it back in the bios and all good again.