Bootmgr is missing, vista

tylers86 · Jul 5, 2009, 08:56 PM

Alright so this is some what of an extensive issue on a dv2710us on Vista.

One of the crippling elements of this whole situation is this computers CD drive is not working. Windows was not recognizing a CD/DVD drive present, which is what I was trying to fix. So I accessed the recovery manager by pressing F11 on bootup to have Windows install all of the original files, but not format the C drive. Well it began formatting the C drive, and a progress bar showed up so I powered down the PC before it got past 0%. When I powered it back up, I get a "Bootmgr is missing" message and am unable to get past that.

After doing some research online, I accessed the recovery manager and opened Command, and did a Bootrec /fixboot, the operation completed and upon restarting, it booted straight to the recovery manager. I was no longer able to boot to the C drive. I did a little more research and opened up Command again, and used DISKPART to make the C drive active.

This time after rebooting the cmoputer, I am once again given the Bootmgr is missing message. Not only that, I am unable to press f11 to get to recovery manager anymore.

At this point, I mainly need to access the harddrive so I can backup some improtant files, and then do a full reformat of the C drive. I have a disc of Ubuntu I had the idea of loading up to access the C drive, however since the DVD drive is not recognizing discs I am unable to use it. I also downloaded a Vista recovery disc from here and placed it a USB stick drive. Upon booting up I can press f9 to select multi boot options. When the drive is inserted the options are Laptop harddrive, and USB diskette. The USB diskette option is not present when I have the stick drive removed. I select to boot from USB diskette and the computer proceeds with a black screen as if it may boot, but then returns to the initial boot up screen (where you can use F keys to access BIOS, etc.) and then got to Bootmgr is missing.

Anyone got any bright ideas as to what I can do? Im gonna try to get my hands on a larger USB drive to put ubuntu onto that. Other than i dont know what to do.

shaman9876 · Jul 5, 2009, 11:32 PM

Since you obviously have another computer to use. I would pull the hard drive out and stick it into the other computer. Or use a sata/ata to usb/firewire adapter and use the other computer to get the files off of that. It also seems that you did a partial fromat which caused you to loose the partition information. There is tools to recover a formated hard drive and lost partition tables. Here is a beginners page. Beginners Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery - PCSTATS.com to format recovery and this is a page NTFS.com Recover Partition Table. Hard Drive Recovery Concepts that walks through partion table recovery. Which I have had to do in the past. Hope this helps.

Jul 5, 2009, 08:56 PM	#1
tylers86 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Bootmgr is missing, vista Alright so this is some what of an extensive issue on a dv2710us on Vista. One of the crippling elements of this whole situation is this computers CD drive is not working. Windows was not recognizing a CD/DVD drive present, which is what I was trying to fix. So I accessed the recovery manager by pressing F11 on bootup to have Windows install all of the original files, but not format the C drive. Well it began formatting the C drive, and a progress bar showed up so I powered down the PC before it got past 0%. When I powered it back up, I get a "Bootmgr is missing" message and am unable to get past that. After doing some research online, I accessed the recovery manager and opened Command, and did a Bootrec /fixboot, the operation completed and upon restarting, it booted straight to the recovery manager. I was no longer able to boot to the C drive. I did a little more research and opened up Command again, and used DISKPART to make the C drive active. This time after rebooting the cmoputer, I am once again given the Bootmgr is missing message. Not only that, I am unable to press f11 to get to recovery manager anymore. At this point, I mainly need to access the harddrive so I can backup some improtant files, and then do a full reformat of the C drive. I have a disc of Ubuntu I had the idea of loading up to access the C drive, however since the DVD drive is not recognizing discs I am unable to use it. I also downloaded a Vista recovery disc from here and placed it a USB stick drive. Upon booting up I can press f9 to select multi boot options. When the drive is inserted the options are Laptop harddrive, and USB diskette. The USB diskette option is not present when I have the stick drive removed. I select to boot from USB diskette and the computer proceeds with a black screen as if it may boot, but then returns to the initial boot up screen (where you can use F keys to access BIOS, etc.) and then got to Bootmgr is missing. Anyone got any bright ideas as to what I can do? Im gonna try to get my hands on a larger USB drive to put ubuntu onto that. Other than i dont know what to do.

Jul 5, 2009, 11:32 PM	#2
shaman9876 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA, WI Posts: 80 Rep Power: 62 System Specs	Re: Bootmgr is missing, vista Since you obviously have another computer to use. I would pull the hard drive out and stick it into the other computer. Or use a sata/ata to usb/firewire adapter and use the other computer to get the files off of that. It also seems that you did a partial fromat which caused you to loose the partition information. There is tools to recover a formated hard drive and lost partition tables. Here is a beginners page. Beginners Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery - PCSTATS.com to format recovery and this is a page NTFS.com Recover Partition Table. Hard Drive Recovery Concepts that walks through partion table recovery. Which I have had to do in the past. Hope this helps.