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Bootmgr missing ctrl+alt+del and more
Hi all,
I have read up on this forum about how to create a USB which solves this problem,but I think I have a combination which doesn't make that solution a viable option.
My problem is as follows:-
I have a grub USB stick with windows Installations on, as well as repair programs.
I used it to re-install win 7 on my other laptop, and, it worked like a charm and runs like a dream. A 2 second shutdown is what I'd call quick :)
Anyhow, thought I'd give it a go ony netbook, as, being about to sell it, thought I'd reinstall the starter version of windows that came pre-installed when I bought it.
All was good, until restarting after installation. It seemed to only boot off the aforementioned USB stick. I ran the repair startup facility as described 3 times but still the same thing. Windows seemed to think I should boot from the Ethernet port for some reason, at least that's what it was looking for at startup.
So, reluctantly, I re-installed windows.
Now, I should mention there was a 99mb partition which wasn't showing up after installation, so I went into disc management and enable it, after the 2nd successive install. I was careful to mark C drive as an active partition, so as to make sure it booted up to that at startup, so in doing so I labelled that as the primary 238gb partition.
I then re-started my netbook, and then got an error stating "bootmgr missing, press ctrl alt & delete".
I did, my netbook restarted and so I'm here :)
Further problem is this...
When I put my USB drive which contains recovery and disk management software, it doesn't make a difference as I get the same message.
Additional problem is this...
I can't get into bios but...
My arrow keys DO NOT function, so all I can do is load setup defaults which make no difference, and.. I'm back to square one :)
Short of taking out the hdd what can I do?
F8 does nothing
USB drive does nothing
I cannot change the boot options in bios..
and
I don't have a built in DVD/CD drive