BOOTMGR is missing - Startup Error On Vista
I don’t know how prevalent the problem is of Vista displaying the error message “BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”, but I wish I’d seen this fix from Cybernet a few weeks ago. The way I temporarily solved the problem was to boot my machine with the Vista DVD inserted EVERY TIME. I decided this was a bad idea as my DVD drive is temperamental and prone to chewing up discs, so I ended up doing a full rebuild as I didn’t want to risk my Vista Disk.
To fix the problem the sensible way, do the following:
1. Pick your language and continue onto the next screen.
2. Choose the option in the bottom left corner entitled Repair Your Computer:
BOOTMGR Repair
3. Choose the Windows installation you want to repair.
4. Choose the Startup Repair option and the problem will be solved!BOOTMGR Repair
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B. Gebeyehu on 24 Oct 2007 at 8:24 am #
I was having vista premium in my laptop after a while it was asking me to activate it by activating key but I did not have a key (I got the recovery CD from my laptop supplier) then after I formated by DOS then when I am going to instal again it gives me a comand BOOTMGR MISSING restart by ctrl + alt + dele.
Still I am in problem and I can,t recover my laptop.
With regards
Gebeyehu
Manuel on 22 Mar 2008 at 10:16 pm #
How are you meant to do what you just said above if you dont have the windows vista installation cd…
Greg on 06 May 2008 at 6:12 am #
I too have had this BootMGR missing!
I bought my new PC without an operating system, scince it said all over it to install vista I did that.
on the first day I got the blue screan which said restart windows with vista DVD.
On restarting I got “bootmgr missing”.
I could not boot from the cd/dvd even when I selected that option from the bios menu, it began to boot from the cd then said “bootmgr missing” pleased press…ctl..atl del.
The only was I have been able to boot the computer is from cd without the hard drive attatched. Once the windows installation has started reattatch the hard drive.
This then gives the istallation options.
Unfortunately vista can not fix my proble it says “#£”£**XX”, I was not happy!
Through a few menus, I got to option to reformat disk, great just start again.
Alas once you have vist on the computer getting rid seems difficult.
I used the vista cd to boot in command propt formatted c: drive form there, as well and I still get this bloody message “bootmgr can not be found!”
Any help please!!
I don’t want to go and buy a new hard drive yet.
Diba on 17 May 2008 at 7:24 pm #
I’ll start this off by saying that I do not completely understand computer software.
I installed vista recently and its been giving me alot of problems. Today, I got a blue screen and when I tried to restart, it told me “BOOTMGR is Missing. Press ctrl+alt+delete to restart”. My keyboard wasnt even working for some reason so I tried restarting a few times. Didn’t work. So this is what did:
I went to the BIOS menu, and chose the BIOS settings. One of the options, I believe it was “BOOT Priority” or something along those lines, had an arrow next to it. I changed the order of the BOOT startup and restarted and it worked. I really hope this works for you guys.