BOOTMGR Error in Vista

Hey, my mate trusted me with his laptop(Advent 8315) to take home and fix, so i booted it up and i get this error,

"BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

From what i can gather, a vista recovery cd will fix it.........trouble is my mate never got a vista system recovery cd with laptop! Anyone know where i can obtain this CD?

 

I got the BOOTMGR MISSING message, but my laptop did not come with the VISTA CD. This solved the problem for me: Turn the PC off, and then back on. While it is starting up, hit F10 repeatedly until this message appears: EDIT BOOT OPTIONS. Press enter and the screen shouldl read: RECOVERY TOOLS BEING LAUNCHED. From there, you can do a SYSTEM RESTORE.

Or, does the Advent have a 2nd partition for a recovery image?? If so, try restoring from it.

Let us know what happens........

 

Do not have any of those options.

And F10 does nothing. Only f keys available are 2 and 12.

 

careful with a "restore" function as that will erase all the data on the drive.

any vista disc should work (OEM or retail) if all you want to do is repair the boot sequence so i would just hit up a neighbor or something.

 

Got a vista cd, configed bios to load cd drive but no luck. Still same error.

 

either you did something wrong, the disc isn't bootable (unlikely), or there's another drive connected (like a usb drive or external drive)

 

did you Google this problem????

it seems like i had to repair the boot mgr, but I don't remember what i did exactly.......

also, if it's not F10, try F8, boot into safe mode, etc. try to repair......

let me look around again

 

Look Here!!

 

I configed the BIOS to load up vista cd and did exactly what was on that page, no luck. Looks like my mate just wasted £500 XD

 

well, I never said i was smart

maybe somebody else will give a shot at helpin out

did you check out all the options on that last page??

1. Boot to the Vista installation DVD and select Repair Your Computer.

2. Select Command Prompt from the System Recovery Tools menu.

3. Run "bootrec /fixboot" (no quotes).

4. Exit Command Prompt and restart.

 

Is there an additional unused partition available on the machine? If so, you could try installing Ubuntu from a LiveCD on the partition which will install the GRUB loader - just make sure you don't wipe Vista. The GRUB loader should then let you boot into Vista. Once back inside Vista download a program called EasyBCD and use it to fix the Vista Boot manager. Upon restart, if its worked you should then boot into Vista. To remove Linux you'll just need to load the LiveCD and run the partition manager again to turn the Linux part back into NTFS file type so that it can be used by Vista again.

Its an incredibly long drawn out method and does require access to a LiveCD and needs an additional partition on the laptop but if you can fulfill those requirements and nothing else is working it might be worth a shot.