Win 7 Boot Mgr missing, and unable to repair

I'm having some serious trouble with Win 7. I was trying to reclaim some unallocated space on the drive and in the process seem to have lost boot manager, so it won't load Windows.

If I put the disc in, it's not able to automatically able to repair because it says the repair disc I'm using is not compatible with the OS I have installed. This is the same disc I used to install Win 7 in the first place. Tried using cmd prompt to reload boot manager manually,and it completes the operation successfully but still says bootmgr is missing at start up.

What's scaring me is that if I try to just install Win 7 again (onto the unallocated space), the hard drive just turns off and the hdd light comes on solid. This is when I choose 'Install Now' from the opening screen before selecting partitions etc. I'm typing this post from a spare hdd. The only thing I can think off at this point is the get an enclosure and recover my files; then wipe the hdd in question and reinstall Win 7.

I would really appreciate any help anyone can give to avoid that route though.

Thanks.

 

Go find the bootloader in your Recycle Bin.

I don't think there's any simple way of fixing it aside from what you said already. You could try downloading a clean ISO from the Legal Win 7 thread and see if that will let you repair it. Any other routes could possibly take longer than just backing up data and reformatting off a clean hard drive though..

 

what exactly did you do th reclaim unallocated space?

Did you create a new partition or deleted a small partition? Was this before or after the partition that has windows installed?

I would recommend you download UBCD ( Ultimate Boot CD - Overview) and burn it and boot from it. Use GParted and check what partition you currently have on your drive and which one is active.

If you have a different partition tool you can also use this. Or connect your disk as a usb drive to a different computer and check there.