The Windows 7 Drama

[webfact]

I have installed W7 32b ultimate in a 500GB HDD - brand new. I set up everything and was already working.

For some reason I had to shut down the computer. When I restarted instead of W7 an error message appeared on the screen

"BOOTMGR is missing. Press ctrl-alt delete to restart".

I have tried several repair functions coming with w7. To no avail.

Any adise is appreciated.

Thx

[Beggar]

This is what I said here already in an other post exactly about this - Microsoft garbage at its best...

Did this long time ago so not everything might be exactly as on the screen.

Put your Win7 install disk in the DVD drive and start from there. Then comes a screen where you can select Repair Your Computer. Select this. Then comes something like Command Prompt to select (I think it was the last entry). Select this. Then type:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

c:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force (If c:\ does not work enter the path of your DVD drive)

del C:\boot\bcd

bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

Somehow easy / or??? No not really. A shame what Microsoft did here to customers!

Edited December 19, 2009 by Beggar

[Supernova]

Remove the BCD store, and recreate it. Execute commands in the following order:

bcdedit /export c:\bcd_backup

ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old

bootrec /rebuildbcd

# Restart your computer

Also make sure the drive or partition containing bootmgr is set 'Active'.

[welo]

Did you connect any USB mass storage device lately? Did you change boot order in the BIOS? Is the Windows partition the active partition?

welo

[bendejo]

Did you connect any USB mass storage device lately? Did you change boot order in the BIOS? Is the Windows partition the active partition?

welo

Indeed, when the computer is booting, wherever it is looking for boot info it's not finding it.

Go into your BIOS config (when you start your computer there should be a message like 'Press -some key name- to configure'

Depending on the computer you'll get a list of possible places to boot from: USB drive, network, CD/DVD etc. Tell it to use internal hard drive.

[Gary A]

Do you have a second hard drive hooked up? If so, unplug it and reboot. I had that problem and after unplugging the second hard drive, the system started normally. Since then I have gone into the BIOS and disabled that second hard drive from the boot priority. I use the second hard drive for the backup and it still works despite being disabled from the boot menu.

[lopburi3]

I have two or three extra hard drives and often have boot hang (no color dots appear) and have to power down, remove USB hub and boot - then plug the hub back in. Will have to check it may be the boot priority mentioned above.

[JSixpack]

Also check that there's not a diskette in the floppy drive from which it may be trying to boot. Seen that before.

[webfact]

The issue has been solved. It was caused by a external bootable USB HDD.

Thanks to everybody in this thread for your advise