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BOOTMGR MISSING

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OpalFrost98GT

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Just installed Vista RC2 and I get the error on boot BOOTMGR Missing press ctrl-alt-del to restart.

This only occurs if the Vista install disk isn't in the DVD Drive.

IF the Install disk is in the drive I get the option to press any key to boot off of the CD or DVD, but If I dont select to boot off the CD Vista starts normally and runs fine.

I really dont want to have to leave the Install disk in the DVD drive to be able to start Windows!

Anyone else have this issue???

TIA
 
Originally posted by: OpalFrost98GT
Just installed Vista RC2 and I get the error on boot BOOTMGR Missing press ctrl-alt-del to restart.

This only occurs if the Vista install disk isn't in the DVD Drive.

IF the Install disk is in the drive I get the option to press any key to boot off of the CD or DVD, but If I dont select to boot off the CD Vista starts normally and runs fine.

I really dont want to have to leave the Install disk in the DVD drive to be able to start Windows!

Anyone else have this issue???

TIA
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I actually do have the same issue but I have it dual booting XP and vista, the thing is ANY bootable cd in the drive seems to allow the system to boot up correctly (windows xp/vista/acronis) I have tried the fixboot and fixmbr from the repair console to no avail so I have no idea whats going on and until I find a fix the cd stays in the drive I guess.... it's just weird


 
I just realized what it was, but your problem might be diff, what motherboard are you using and all?
 
Athlon64 3400+ S754, Gigabyte K8VM800M MB, Seagate SATA 80 GB HD...

I had the SATA Drive installes as the Master Serial Drive but also had a 250 GB IDE Drive installed as the Master on the Primary IDE Channel.

I didn't upgrade XP on this PC I Installed off of the Vista DVD from boot up and chose to format the C partition on the SATA drive and install vista there. Vista wrote the BootMgr on the IDE drive instead of the SATA Drive for some reason.

I also noticed that when I tried to do a repair off of the Vista DVD the Windows installation partiton was shown as the D: drive instead of the C: Drive.??

Anyway I removed the 250GB Drive and reinstalled Vista and all is fine.

 
My issue was kinda boneheaded although a little odd, there is a setting in my bios for boot order for the HDD's (which is odd as I thought it always went in order of whatever drive was on the first channel etc) and my order started with a USB drive I had... once I changed it to the right order all was well... but now I can't get the vista boot manager to see both XP and Vista, I think I am just going to dump vista, it's not worth the aggravation to have a half baked OS that runs slow even on a dual core 3.4GHz system w/2gigs DDR2 on a 10k raptor... what about that should be slow??
 
ugh...probably could've saved yourself the re-install...just use a 3rd party tool like vistabootpro and it *should* install a new bootmanager. also allows editing of options etc.
 
There's really no need to use VistaBootPro.
Simply boot from the Vista DVD, then after choosing the language settings, choose the repair option on the next menu(can't remember the exact name right now). In there, the last option is to check booting intgrity. If there is any problem with the bootmanager, the repair tool automatically repairs it.
 
What happened? I posted the above message, however I don't have that login name(as you can see my login is Axell).
 
Originally posted by: amonte
There's really no need to use VistaBootPro.
Simply boot from the Vista DVD, then after choosing the language settings, choose the repair option on the next menu(can't remember the exact name right now). In there, the last option is to check booting intgrity. If there is any problem with the bootmanager, the repair tool automatically repairs it.
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Thats the odd thing i went through that a handful of times even after I fixed my boot order (which I thought was automagic depending on the device i.e. SATA port 1 would be first SATA port 2 would be second etc... Screw it I have OSx 10.4.6 that I am gonna give a try 😉
 
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