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Need to move MBR, running into Bootmgr missing error
I have what I hope is a nice clean Windows 7 install on a fairly new hard drive (C:) from earlier this year. But I recently determined that the MasterBootRec is still on a tiny old otherwise empty hard drive (Q:)I need to remove.
I tried following these instructions to move the MBR; I made my C: partition Active, in the BIOS moved this drive to the first boot position, then threw salt over my left shoulder, stood on one foot, and used my Repair Disk to run the system repair 3 times (per a Win7 tutorial).
No luck, just a BootMGR missing error msg on restart w/o the CD.
Next I followed another tutorial for fixing the BootMGR using the repair CD cmd prompt & 3 bootrec commands run on C:, the last being "bootrec /RebuildBcd" upon which I got "completed successly" but also zero Windows installation found. Sure enough, restart still showed Bootmgr missing until I put that old crummy disk back to the top of the boot list.
Please help!!
Last edited by sstowell; 21 Aug 2014 at 18:47.