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Another BOOTMGR missing, I cannot work around it
Hi!
I’m trying to help a friend sort out an issue. It concerns a Windows 7 Premium 32bit laptop. At start-up we get the “BOOTMGR is missing, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”.
Now, I came across an article at howtogeek.com called “Fixing “BOOTMGR is missing” Error While Trying to Boot Windows 7 or Vista”. I didn’t have a Win7 repair disk handy but managed to create on from a torrent. The next problem was that I couldn’t get my operating system to show up in the System Recovery Options List. The article stated I could manually type “bootrec /fixboot” in the command prompt. I did. Several times. Still the computer didn’t work and the operating system didn’t show up.
My next step was to find this forum, and the guru “gregrocker”. I found a thread from 2 June 2010 with my exact problem where “gregrocker” explained how to mark Win 7 as active. I followed these steps but I still can’t get the computer to start or the operating system to show up in the list.
So, my question is: Is there any chance to get a one-on-one treatment with “gregrocker”? =)
I’m not sure what action to take at this point. I’m pretty sure my friend would like to keep all data on HDD if possible.
Thank you!