System crashed - Bootmgr not found

Hi,

I was running a virtual desktop on my G73-JH and when I came back to the game to exit out it was taking a long time so I did multiple exits. Eventually it crashed out. On reboot it gave me "bootmgr" not found. I have a 2nd HDD in there (250GB SATA in bracket) and I reset both drives and am still getting the same message.

I have an initial image backup from Paragon I made and at the end of the restore I got a File I/O error message but said it completed successfully after I clicked in the box. Upon restarting I got a slightly different message, said insert boot media or yada yada. I have DVD/CDROM set as initial boot then the 500GB HDD. Did the drive crap itself or what here? I am no slouch in regards to hardware troubleshooting/software troubleshooting. But this is bugging me. I removed the 250GB HDD and tried booting, same thing. No difference. I will try another restore w/o the 250GB installed and see if it goes any better.....I don't want to have to try and restore from the images I got from BB (had them make the backups for me, I assume I need to restore from BIOS for this?).

[edit] I am going to see if there is a format option from Paragon to try that before restoring to see if that helps things out.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Mike

No luck on paragon restore, getting error code 80 still. I formatted it, selected the partition, tried recovery partition, et al. I am going looking for Win7 image via forum to download the Home Premium version and try doing a clean install of that.....I am not in the best of moods from this and very disappointed the laptop CRASHED and couldn't find the bootmgr. Had that once before with the 250GB installed, reseated both and system worked fine until this recent crash. I am wondering if this 500GB is a faulty drive. I'd hate to be down just to RMA it back to ASUS for a crap HDD....and lord knows I do not like Seagate drives.

 

Found my Asus backup discs (2) and am in process of restoring from them. Once that's done and system (hopefully) boots I have to update audio/video drivers and then get my AV/apps installed (not too many thankfully). So hopefully later today I can report success and running again.

[Edit] Well, it appears I am missing 2 discs for the recovery, I found disc 1 and 2 but it is wanting disc 3 and I expect 4. So doing clean install and see how things fall out after that. I am getting the driver/app disc from Chastity's link (thanks so much for all your hard work!) and will go from there. So much for a couple hrs today haha.