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bootmgr is missing and edit windows boot options
hey guys. im having some issues installing windows from a usb after a hard drive replacement. im a novice at this and have been frustrated all week. ill try to keep this short, here goes... this is a sony vaio laptop about two years old.
replaced hard drive and upgraded ram as well. installed 1st recovery disk that came with the pc, second one was cracked. tried the recovery disks made when the computer was bought. nothing. turns out new HD was an advanced format whereas the old one was not so recovery disks were of no use.
downloaded windows 7 64bit iso file from mydigitallife and made it bootable to usb using command prompt. formatted it to NFTS, didnt seem to work so i used ultraiso. after changing boot order in bois i get "bootmgr is missing ctrl+alt+del to restart" usb is def bootable as it starts syncing immediately when plugged into another computer.
when i press f10 during power up i see "edit windows boot options for 'start vaio recovery center'" along with a few other things like path minint rdimageoffset, etc
also, i have performed hardware diognostics, vaio says everything is working well. any help is much appreciated. school is in week two and i can not get this to work. thank you in advance!
Robert