BOOTMGR is missing

I get the above message on booting an HP 530 loaded with vista basic. It
belongs to the guy next door, he pulled a pendrive without releasing it in
software and off it went.
I have tried the recovery program booting from the HP vista disk provided
and also a vista boot disk downloaded from a help site with the same result,
no operating system is found and it does not find the C: drive.
I tried bootrec/fixboot and that said it was fixed but it still wouldnt boot
into vista giving the same message:
BOOTMGR is missing
press ctrl alt delete to restart
I am thinking about formatting the drive NTFS with an old XP disk and then a
clean install of vista onto the c:\ drive. Is this feasible?
Any other options?

TIA
DB

If I click 'load drivers' it gives me anm explorer interface in which i can
naigate to the c:\ drive so it IS there. It has two windows folders, one
tagged as 'windows.old'. I tried renaming that one back to 'windows' and
tagging the other as old but this didnt work either.
Where exactly does the 'BOOTMGR' file go and how can i find and replace it
manually?
"iz0nlee" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I get the above message on booting an HP 530 loaded with vista basic. It
>belongs to the guy next door, he pulled a pendrive without releasing it in
>software and off it went.
> I have tried the recovery program booting from the HP vista disk provided
> and also a vista boot disk downloaded from a help site with the same
> result, no operating system is found and it does not find the C: drive.
> I tried bootrec/fixboot and that said it was fixed but it still wouldnt
> boot into vista giving the same message:
> BOOTMGR is missing
> press ctrl alt delete to restart
> I am thinking about formatting the drive NTFS with an old XP disk and then
> a clean install of vista onto the c:\ drive. Is this feasible?
> Any other options?
>
> TIA
> DB
>
>

Iz0nlee

You might see if running a Startup Repair can allow it to fix the boo
file for you automatically

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91...tup-repair.htm

Hope this helps
Shaw

iz0nlee;942892 Wrote:
> If I click 'load drivers' it gives me anm explorer interface in which
> ca
> naigate to the c:\ drive so it IS there. It has two windows folders
> on
> tagged as 'windows.old'. I tried renaming that one back to 'windows
> an
> tagging the other as old but this didnt work either
> Where exactly does the 'BOOTMGR' file go and how can i find and replac
> i
> manually
> "iz0nlee" <iz0nlee@xxxxxx> wrote in messag
> news:epiz8MWeJHA.556@xxxxxx> > >
> > >I get the above message on booting an HP 530 loaded with vista basic
> > I
> > >belongs to the guy next door, he pulled a pendrive without releasin
> > it i
> > >software and off it went
> > > I have tried the recovery program booting from the HP vista dis
> > provide
> > > and also a vista boot disk downloaded from a help site with the sam
> > > result, no operating system is found and it does not find the C
> > drive
> > > I tried bootrec/fixboot and that said it was fixed but it stil
> > wouldn
> > > boot into vista giving the same message
> > > BOOTMGR is missin
> > > press ctrl alt delete to restar
> > > I am thinking about formatting the drive NTFS with an old XP disk an
> > the
> > > a clean install of vista onto the c:\ drive. Is this feasible
> > > Any other options
> >
> > > TI
> > > D
> >
> > > >

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:55:00 -0000, "iz0nlee"
<> wrote:

>I get the above message on booting an HP 530 loaded with vista basic. It
>belongs to the guy next door, he pulled a pendrive without releasing it in
>software and off it went.
>I have tried the recovery program booting from the HP vista disk provided
>and also a vista boot disk downloaded from a help site with the same result,
>no operating system is found and it does not find the C: drive.
>I tried bootrec/fixboot and that said it was fixed but it still wouldnt boot
>into vista giving the same message:
>BOOTMGR is missing

Have you actually verified that bootmgr is missing from the System
partition?
dir /ah

>press ctrl alt delete to restart
>I am thinking about formatting the drive NTFS with an old XP disk and then a
>clean install of vista onto the c:\ drive. Is this feasible?
>Any other options?
>
>TIA
>DB
>

See here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/20...-missing.html;

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Hope that works ! ! !
Dinesh.

Do you have a Vista CD?

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"chromedome801" <> wrote in message
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>
> Ok, here is the deal... I have tried everything in the world to get
> this thing (my laptop) working again. It is giving me the BOOTMGR is
> missing error. I cannot get to the gmd promt, i cannot get to the
> repair screen, this is all it is giving me. I can get the bios and
> setup menues, but there is nothing in there that helps me. CAN ANYONE
> HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
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Hi, chromedome801.

Boot from the Vista DVD-ROM and have it Repair your startup files.

If you have multiple hard disk drives in that laptop, be sure that your BIOS
is set to boot from the one you want to use for future reboots.

And, PLEASE don't tell us that you "have tried everything in the world"!
:>( First, we're sure it isn't true. Second, if you have already "tried
everything", then there's no sense in us offering any advice, is there?
:^{ But if you've "tried everything I can think of", maybe we can suggest
something you haven't thought of. ;^}

RC
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"chromedome801" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Ok, here is the deal... I have tried everything in the world to get
> this thing (my laptop) working again. It is giving me the BOOTMGR is
> missing error. I cannot get to the gmd promt, i cannot get to the
> repair screen, this is all it is giving me. I can get the bios and
> setup menues, but there is nothing in there that helps me. CAN ANYONE
> HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> --
> chromedome801