Bootmgr on external drive ?

[24c]

I have 3 drives, C-OS internal, D-data internal, E-data external. "Bootmgr" appears on C and E, but not D. I thought this was some kind of error, deleted it off E, machine wouldn't boot. A quick fix with the Win 7 DVD, all was well again.

Is there any reason the bootmgr file is on the external drive?
C = RAIDO - 4 SSDs
D = 64 GB Patriot SSD
E = WD 640 GB spinner - connected by eSATA cable to eSATA port on back panel.

 

[gregrocker]

Check with DISKPART or free Partition Wizard that only your OS drive is Active.

If not, mark ONLY the Win7 partition active then boot the DVD/Repair CD to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots to repair or write the MBR to Win7.

 

[24c]

Thanks GR, as soon as I get the machine to boot up I'll check it out. Right now it is in rough shape, not related to the bootmgr issue.

 

[gregrocker]

If it won't start Windows, then boot the Win7 DVD repair console, press Shift F10 or click through to Recovery Tools list to open a Command line, then use DISKPART to mark Win7 partition active: Partition - Mark as Active - Windows 7 Forums.URL

Close command line, from Recovery Tools list select Startup Repair to run up to 3 separate times with reboots to repair or write the MBR to Win7: Startup Repair - Windows 7 Forums.URL

If it continues to fail to start, tell us exactly when it fails and any error message.

 

[24c]

I got machine booted - when I was working in the case to add 2 drives, I moved a SATA cable to one of the SSDs in the RAID 0 array. Once I secured the cable, all was well and I just deleted the bootmgr file off the drive, which I now have as part of a 2 drive RAID 1 array for data.

Thank you for your reply.

 

[pbcopter]

As far as the operating system is concerned, an eSATA drive is not necessarily external.