BootMGR missing

Elmonfear · 8 Jun 2012 at 21:27

I just finished building my new computer and I had installed windows 7 32 bit on the harddrive through my old computer and I thought I could then install the 64 bit easier that way (the operating system would be more recognised?) and I formatted on the harddrive the 2 partitions and then tried installing and gets stuck at expanding windows files - 0% then I restart the computer and comes up with "bootmgr missing restart ctrl-alt-dlt"

What can I do? I've tried windows repair and it's not working?

KIA · 9 Jun 2012 at 10:23

Why did you restart the computer?

You might need to wait a while at "expanding Windows files".

Elmonfear · 9 Jun 2012 at 10:25

Yeh I restarted the computer but still happens, I waited 5 minutes and expanding files was still on 0%

RevBillyG · 9 Jun 2012 at 21:50

Wait longer

It takes a while to get over 0% but will then get faster.

KIA · 10 Jun 2012 at 10:32

Elmonfear said:
Yeh I restarted the computer but still happens, I waited 5 minutes and expanding files was still on 0%

Not long enough. Give it at least 15-30 minutes.

deanolfc · 11 Jun 2012 at 13:07

In Command Prompt type bootrec.exe

and choose one of the 4 options to repair boot manager

bootrec /Fixmbr

bootrec /Fixboot

bootrec /ScanOs

bootrec /Rebuildbcd

lurkio · 11 Jun 2012 at 14:42

KIA said:
Not long enough. Give it at least 15-30 minutes.

+1 what this man says
I would say waiting for it to install properly would be wise

R088ieS86 · 11 Jun 2012 at 14:48

If it gets stuck on their for any longer then you could have a faulty RAM module.
You could run memtest or you could just take out a stick and try then swap it round.

Orcvader · 11 Jun 2012 at 14:49

KIA said:
Not long enough. Give it at least 15-30 minutes.

This. It's probably the slowest part of the install.