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When I first started troubleshooting. Yes, none of them say no boot device available.
No OS installed, need to do a factory restore.
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New #52
Not the MBR! the mbr on disk just starts the bootsector of first active primary partition on th disk. You mean the right bootsector has to be placed on that partition. And all files place on that partition. (first make partition ext3 or ext4 or so)
you mean UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads ?
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New #53
Yes, I get the same message. I can hear it spinning, and there is a green light on the CD/dvd drive. It wouldn't work before if I just rebooted, but it would work If I turned it off while the CD was still in the drive and turned it back on. Now that doesn't work.
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New #55
very strange if that's true. It should work on reboot and cold boot. reboot is even more likely to work as it is spinning already then.
Maybe cable problem (not inserted nicely). Just let's wait till win7 download iso finishes downloading (how long still)?
How many partitions are still on harddisk? only recovery partition?
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New #56
about 20 minutes left.
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New #57
But are win8, win7 and or ubuntu partitions still on that harddrive? Or did you format them? or deleted them?
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New #58
(from my memory) There is an OEM partition that is 39 MB ( I guess that is the bios files ? ) There is the recovery partition, which is 14 GB, there is the OS installation partition which was formatted (and split) So it's 250 GB, and the other is 250 GB.
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New #59
I was never able to instal windows 8 but I was able to use the recovery tools in the CD to format C:, but the ubuntu installation froze up (a problem related to drivers I believe - it wasn't compatible with my computer)
The reason I formatted C: was because I figured I could somehow get to the advanced boot options to do a factory install.
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New #60
so OEM partition. very small, probably windows 7 speical drivers for laptop hardware.
RECOVERY partition to go back to factory settings.
And 2 Other partitions. Both about 250GB. Both 250GB have been formatted. So totally empty now? No important files, and windows stuff on it. Please confirm
If you reboot you still see message "bootmgr missing"? If so, most likely one of the 250GB partitions has been marked active
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