bootmgr problem after an incomplete installation

My older 500gb hard drive failed on me so i bought a larger 1.5 tb hard drive and decided to also buy a windows 7 oem because it was time to upgrade from vista, and the new hard drive provided a good time to change OS's, i plugged in the hard drive into my motherboard turned on my computer, checked to make sure it reads my hard drive, which it did, and popped in the installation cd and began installing windows seven. i got to(what i think) was half way through when i got a blue screen telling me to restart because of some error. So i followed the suggestion and restarted only to be presented with the bootmgr is missing, press ctrl atl del to restart message. i don't know how this is happening since i don't have a completed version of windows seven installed. additionally i have tried popping in my older windows vista oem but it also gives me the same error as before. please help

Do you full format on your new HD?

i do not remember doing anything different than the default option, so i think it was full formatted

You should probably apply formatting after building several partitions using Drive Options on the "Where do you want to install WIn7" screen. This can sometimes help.

Clean Install Windows 7

Is your BIOS up to date?

I'd also reset the CMOS which sometimes helps this: Clear CMOS - 3 Ways to Clear the CMOS - Reset BIOS

Unplug all peripherals, remove all but 2gb of RAM for install, test your RAM with memtest86 CD, check your SATA controller setting in BIOS: try AHCI first, then IDE if necc.

well i cant reformat my hard drive yet because i cant load the install cd. thanks

If your DVD drive is not working try this:

USB Windows 7 Installation Key Drive - Create

if my hard drive is above my cdrom in boot priority could that be the problem?

YamNave said:

if my hard drive is above my cdrom in boot priority could that be the problem?

Change the boot priority to DVD first.

looks like that fixed the problem. i can not thank you guys enough for your timely help

You are welcome.