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BOOTMGR is Missing; Press Ctrl+Alt+del to restart
Hi everybody, I think I made some huge mistake by messing around with partitions in my system. Specifically, I'm quite sure I deleted by mistake the 100 MB system reserved partition that contained the boot files and now Windows 7 shows this error at boot time.
It shouldn't be dramatic since I may have to just write new boot files. I googled a bit around, and this is what I did (with no success). Booting from the installation disk, I entered the command prompt via Shift+F10 and:
- I set the windows partition (the one where windows is installed, i.e., the one that has the c:\windows folder) as active via diskpart, and then I run the system recovery for 3-4-5 times with no success. Every time the log reports that "The partition table does not have a valid System Partition. Repair action: Partition Table Repair Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0 Time taken = 7322 ms". It may look like the problem is fixed, but in the end the BOOTMGR error continues to appear, so I'm wondering whether this is doing something at all. I've read it may take 3-4 times for it to work, but since it didn't I guess we have to try something else. Mind that however, the system recovery is never able to find the windows 7 installation (the list of installations found is empty).
- After setting the windows partition as active, "bootrec /FixMbr" returns "Operation completed successfully"
- After setting the windows partition as active, "bootrec /FixBoot" returns "Element not found"
- After setting the windows partition as active, "bootrec /RebuildBcd" finds one windows installation in C:\Windows, but when adding it it returns "Element not found"
- After setting the windows partition as active, "bcdboot c:\windows /v" returns "BFSVC: Failed to get system partition! Last error = 0x3bc3"
- After setting the windows partition as active, "bcdedit" returns "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The requested system device cannot be found."
I think I'm missing some crucial step, but I explicitly set via diskpart the windows partition to be active. It looks like this setting isn't saved, because everywhere on the internet whoever had a problem similar to mine fixed it by setting the windows partition as active, which I did.
Ideas?
Regards,
Stefano