Vista Bootmgr is missing

Muzy · 3 Feb 2007 at 02:27

ok i have the 32bit retail version of ultimate. i formatted my drive installed it. everything is fine and dandy except this. if i remove the dvd from my drive i can not boot into widows the message is:

bootmgr is missing press
ctrl + alt + del to restart

if i put my disc back in i can boot normally. can someone please help with this?

I have two hd one is Maxtor 300GB (For vista Os) letter c:
and the second one is RaptorX (empty) letter D:

is it to do with the letters ? or do I need to change/edit something ?

benjo plz. · 3 Feb 2007 at 02:41

Try copying \boot and bootmgr off of the disc and onto your main drive. I had a problem with bootmgr to, seems to be a little bug MS has missed.

EDDS · 3 Feb 2007 at 02:52

i had the exact same problem, boot from the disc and then go down to recover and it should have a diagnostic test you can run and it'll fix the problem

Muzy · 3 Feb 2007 at 03:16

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=D:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {98b16b7b-b35d-11db-8772-eedb3cf154ca}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 3

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {98b16b7b-b35d-11db-8772-eedb3cf154ca}
nx OptIn

the boot manager is pointing to D: drive and the d: drive is empty. nothing is stored in there.

i will try your ways first.

Priapus · 3 Feb 2007 at 07:38

Yes, I also have this problem every now and then. I just put the DVD in the drive, let it load to the first page that it asksto select language and then reboot all it fine. Will try the above to fix it...

Muzy · 3 Feb 2007 at 11:05

I couldn't fix it. going to reformat, take out the D: drive and reinstall vista using one drive.

Priapus · 3 Feb 2007 at 11:42

Won't help...it will still give the error. I tried re formatting...

Muzy · 3 Feb 2007 at 12:16

yep, you are right,

I fixed it anyway:

RaptorX (d: drive) has the bootmgr, so I changed the hard drive boot priority in bios to raptorX #1 and maxtor(c

to #2. and it worked.

Phnom_Penh, its nearly impossible to move the bootmgr files from one drive to another. its been blocked somehow ?

benjo plz. · 3 Feb 2007 at 13:40

Yeh, you have to do it offline, using the Vista install dvd, and clicking recover, without selecting an OS should give you access to the disk offline.