Vista: "Bootmgr is missing"

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woke up this morning, turned on the pc and got shafted with this error saying the bootmgr is missing.

how do i sort this out and get the pc to boot up again without having to loose all my data?
 
right i just sorted this problem out.

turns out my bios settings had gone back to stock (asrock "feature" :rolleyes: ) but this caused my vista to konk out on load up with the bootmgr missing problem.

now for some stupid reason vista had the bootmgr on a different drive to the main boot drive.

to cut a long story short, all i did was fire up my lappy which is running vista 32bit, and copy the bootmgr file which is in the root of lappys c drive to my usb drive. i also copied the hidden boot system folder found on c:\boot.
copied all that to usb drive. then booted up using erd commander on my shafted pc and copied those files and folders over to the c drive and im now typing this message on the pc which was shafted.

2 things this shows, 1: vista is stupid. 2: 32bit bootmgr file works on 64bit vista.

tried that crap where you run the vista dvd and select repair and then use command prompt and the bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot etc and bcdrepair crap but nothing worked other than manual copy job.
 
Did you try using Vista's automatic boot problems fixer thing? When I had that error I used that and it sorted the problem instantly.
 
TheVoice said:
Did you try using Vista's automatic boot problems fixer thing? When I had that error I used that and it sorted the problem instantly.


yep tried that but it was still borked. there was no bootmgr file on the main boot drive hence why i had to copy it from different pc etc.
 
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