New SSD. BOOTMGR is missing.

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So I decided to upgrade my SSD to a new 256gb MX100. I downloaded the acronis software that you get a key for with the hard drive itself and cloned the drive which seemed to be successful.

Both drives showed up in disk management and I assumed the next step would be to change the boot order so my new drive was first. I could then go about formatting the old and that would be it.

However I'm now getting BOOTMGR is missing message for both drives when I try to boot. They will both show up in the bios but not if they are both plugged in at the same time (only the initial drive, or drive which was most recently plugged in will show in boot options etc).

If anyone has any ideas as to a fix that would be great!

Cheers.
 
Run windows startup repair, from CD or USB. Let it do it's thing, restart... it will come up as bootmgr missing again, so run windows startup repair again, and now it should work.
 
I have seen this happen before when you clone the partition and not the entire drive, on your old drive there is a 100MB ish partition which contains the boot information.

As others have said running the windows repair should sort this.
 
I had time to do that before work this morning but it wouldn't let me run the repair. It's OEM windows 7 if that has anything to do with it? Could I do a totally fresh install on the new drive and start again?
 
You need to make a windows start up repair disk, or put windows start up repair on a bootable USB.

Then boot your computer from either that disk or USB stick.


Yes, you could do a totally fresh install on the new drive too.
 
Sounds daft, but make a Macrium Reflect live boot cd, this has a boot repair tool on it, worked for me in the past when the Windows 7 one has failed
 
Ok thanks for the answers. I think the first thing I'll try will be a fresh install on the new drive when I get home. I'm not losing anything important so should've just done this in the first place!

If this won't work (can you use an OEM windows 7 key twice for the same system?) I'll try the macrium reflect boot cd after I've sourced a laptop to create the CD itself.

Failing that I'm assuming I'll just have to buy a new copy of either windows 7/8.1!
 
The fresh install has worked on the new drive. However in the boot options if I change the ssd to boot first I get the same error. Having 'windows boot manager' first allows me to boot successfully.

Is this a problem?
 
Archeum said:
Always disconnect any additional drives when installing Windows :)
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This..

Put your main SSD in SATA 0 (or the first Intel SATA port). Disconnect others when installing Windows. This prevents the boot options getting messed up.
 
bledd. said:
This..

Put your main SSD in SATA 0 (or the first Intel SATA port). Disconnect others when installing Windows. This prevents the boot options getting messed up.
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The only thing I had connected was the CD drive with the SSD in the first SATA slot. Am I going to have issues in future seeing as it wont boot with the SSD in first boot slot?
 
No.

That will be fine.

More of an old habit for me, in old BIOS setups, you would pick HDD0 as your primary boot drive. If it didn't find HDD0, it would try HDD1, HDD2 etc.

So if you then added another hard drive in on an earlier port, it would try and boot to that before the drive you intended it to.

Nowadays, you can specify the name of the drive.
 
Excellent. Seems to be all sorted until my next mishap whilst trying to upgrade! Thanks for the help.

One last question. Im now left with my old M4 with windows still installed. Thing is, I have a football manager game on there that I really want! But im worried putting it back in will create more boot issues.

Question is, will it? And if not is it as simple as taking the things I want from the drive (there isn't much) and then formatting to use as a spare?
 
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