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"BOOTMGR is missing" error - I've tried almost everything
First, let me give you a little background. I purchased this computer (a Lenovo Y-580) about two weeks ago, and have been using it for about a week. When I first got it, the hard drive it came with wouldn't boot so I put in another one I had left over (I upgraded my hard drive a while ago). Little did I know, was that that I forgot to erase that hard drive cleanly, so when Windows 7 installed, it resulted in both an MBR partition table and a GPT partition table at the same time. I discovered this when I went to install Ubuntu (with the cinnamon UI) on the secondary drive that came with my computer (a 16 GB SSD), and I noticed that the partition map for the drive that I wasn't installing on looked wrong, so I put it on my to-do list to look at later. I booted into Ubuntu and pulled up Testdisk and Gparted. Gparted was acting strange, asking me if the GPT table was correct (it wasn't), and I clicked no since I was positive it was MBR and Gparted wouldn't display any partitions. I went in Testdisk and set the type to Intel/PC. I then scanned for partitions, found one, and wrote the MBR. Of course this didn't do anything, because for some reason the GPT table was not being overwritten at all. I then resorted to erasing the entire MBR and making a new one. I figured that I could always use bootrec to fix it. Nope... After 8 hours of on and off trying to fix this problem, it still gives the same error. I've tried bootrec, bootsect, and various other commands, in addition to Startup repair and Hiren's boot CD. I've also tried setting the partition to active using diskpart. Not a single one has worked. Even a wipe of both the C:/boot folder and the MBR and then re-writing it from scratch doesn't work. I recently spent an entire day getting my computer set up exactly the way I want it, I don't want to have to re-do it. Can anyone help?