Help boot manager missing?

oops · 10 Jan 2011 at 15:10

Hi all, Ive a little problem :eek:

I turned on my computer this morning and to my horror Im getting "boot manager is missing press Alt Ctrl and Del to restart" but ive no idea why this has happened it was working fine last night and I never installed anything to upset it! Is there any way I can fix this without having to reinstal windows? Im running windows vista business.

Stryda09 · 10 Jan 2011 at 15:13

I've had this before and I am pretty sure windows repair fixed it. Just put in your disc, select repair and then select your windows install and that should sort it.

oops · 10 Jan 2011 at 15:14

Stryda09 said:
I've had this before and I am pretty sure windows repair fixed it. Just put in your disc, select repair and then select your windows install and that should sort it.

Tried that but it said that it couldn't fix it :confused:

4T5 · 10 Jan 2011 at 15:16

I had this Yesterday. :mad:

No reason at all as far as i can tell apart from me not reinstalling windows after i upgraded my Mobo & CPU. Tried every single fix in the book & a few i thought up along the way, Nowt sorted it. :mad:

In the end i had to roll back & re instal Vista & it's only been in the last few hours I've made head way.
If I expressed my true feelings about this issue I would be Banned.

Stryda09 · 10 Jan 2011 at 15:18

oops said:
Tried that but it said that it couldn't fix it

Oh ok. Do you have any other drives connected? May be trying to boot up from something other than your OS Drive and not finding a boot file there.

oops · 10 Jan 2011 at 15:41

Thanks for the replys guys, the only thing I can think of was, last week I updated the bios :rolleyes:

but it ran fine until this morning :confused:

I do have other drives (internal) connected so ill try disconnecting them and see if that helps

ill get back to you and let you know the outcome.
Thanks again.

oops · 10 Jan 2011 at 18:06

Well I think Ive found the problem, my main HDD has died :eek:

no notice or anything just died :confused:

I have removed all the HDD drives from the pc and attached them to this laptop, the other 2 show up but not my main HDD, it powers up you can hear and feel it but nothing :mad:

I wouldn't have minded any of the other 2 but not this one, sods law sucks, so now Ill have to get me another HDD but Ive lost everything

years of photos, favourits not to mention my documents Ahhhhhhh.