Missing Bootmgr Issue

_syn_ · 11 Feb 2013 at 09:48

I recently upgraded to a Samsung 840pro SSD and have stuck win8 on it.

Everything has been fine for a few weeks until the last few days where it fails to boot and displays a "bootmgr is missing" message.

I have tried booting from the win8 disk run the below once already.
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /RebuildBcd

When getting the message I have been able to restart and it works straight away with out any intervention, but i'm concerned something sinister is going on.

i do have a couple of other hard drives connected, one of which is my old win7 image, i was about to format it and use it as a data drive. would this cause a conflict?

is it worth performing a chkdsk on the ssd?

would be grateful of any suggestions.

cheers,

syn

Antar Bolaeisk · 11 Feb 2013 at 11:39

You could maybe check in BIOS to make sure that the SSD is the first boot device just in case it's trying to boot to another HDD before the SSD.

apeksdiver · 11 Feb 2013 at 11:42

Unplug the other HDDs and see if it still does it. If so it may be a faulty SSD so get your data backed up.

_syn_ · 11 Feb 2013 at 11:42

I was just thinking the same, I have probably been a bit lazy with the cabling and not added it to the first sata slot ill try that in conjunction with the bios tweak.

Thanks!

_syn_ · 11 Feb 2013 at 11:44

apeksdiver said:
Unplug the other HDDs and see if it still does it. If so it may be a faulty SSD so get your data backed up.

ive managed to keep the SSD fairly clear and only installed certain programs on it, so if it does go i wont loose much that ill miss