(Directly pasting from a post i made on another forum)
Hello, I have finally constructed my new computer with my new msi z77a-g45 motherboard and I am having the boot mgr is missing error.
I have a copy of W7 in my optical drive that i'm trying to run (i didn't install msi drivers because i don't have a working HDD)
I have about 3 HDD's I've tried booting with. 2 already have an OS (Vista and W7) the other either has none or w7 most likely.
The vista one just boots up with either a launch startup repair option or normal launch option. I tried the normal option and it kept restarting the computer and since the repair doesn't work i just gave up with that hdd.
The other 2 have the bootmgr is missing error with w7 in the optical drive. I tried messing around the boot setting in my bios but that didn't seem to work.
Suggestions? Thanks :)
(Directly pasting from a post i made on another forum)
Hello, I have finally constructed my new computer with my new msi z77a-g45 motherboard and I am having the boot mgr is missing error.
I have a copy of W7 in my optical drive that i'm trying to run (i didn't install msi drivers because i don't have a working HDD)
I have about 3 HDD's I've tried booting with. 2 already have an OS (Vista and W7) the other either has none or w7 most likely.
The vista one just boots up with either a launch startup repair option or normal launch option. I tried the normal option and it kept restarting the computer and since the repair doesn't work i just gave up with that hdd.
The other 2 have the bootmgr is missing error with w7 in the optical drive. I tried messing around the boot setting in my bios but that didn't seem to work.
Suggestions? Thanks :)
I reformatted a pc a couple weeks back and got the exact same error after installing win 7, basically what happened is that the image or the cd you used to install the OS was corrupted and the installation was corrupted (at least thats what happened to me), so you cannot really do anything because the computer is on an endless restart loop.
What you gonna have to do is download DBan (Darik's boot and nuke), burn it to a cd and run it on boot,beware this is a drive wiper/cleaner so if you have any important data on the disk dont use it, it will ensure all OS corrupted files are wiped so you can make an install from scratch, use the 3-pass wipe option, it's fast and more reliable than the single pass.
After that is done you shouldn't have problems with the boot error but you won't have an OS.
Now, for some reason the OS I had kept getting corrupted on all the dvds I burned, so I tried a USB pen as boot instead and it finally worked, for this I recommend Rufus, it's a really straightforward software to create bootable usb drives.
After that you just install the OS as you normally would and everything should work, if you need anything else let me know.
This is what happened to me, I'm not sure if it's the same problem as yours but seeing as it happened to you it's probable both have win7 as well and the same problem.
PS: (I don't take responsibility for anything that happens if this doesn't work)
I reformatted a pc a couple weeks back and got the exact same error after installing win 7, basically what happened is that the image or the cd you used to install the OS was corrupted and the installation was corrupted (at least thats what happened to me), so you cannot really do anything because the computer is on an endless restart loop.
What you gonna have to do is download [b][url=http://www.dban.org/]DBan (Darik's boot and nuke)[/url][/b], burn it to a cd and run it on boot,[b]beware this is a drive wiper/cleaner so if you have any important data on the disk dont use it[/b], it will ensure all OS corrupted files are wiped so you can make an install from scratch, use the 3-pass wipe option, it's fast and more reliable than the single pass.
After that is done you shouldn't have problems with the boot error but you won't have an OS.
Now, for some reason the OS I had kept getting corrupted on all the dvds I burned, so I tried a USB pen as boot instead and it finally worked, for this I recommend [b][url=http://rufus.akeo.ie/]Rufus[/url][/b], it's a really straightforward software to create bootable usb drives.
After that you just install the OS as you normally would and everything should work, if you need anything else let me know.
This is what happened to me, I'm not sure if it's the same problem as yours but seeing as it happened to you it's probable both have win7 as well and the same problem.
PS: [b](I don't take responsibility for anything that happens if this doesn't work)[/b]
Thank you for the suggestion literally 2 minutes after i posted this i realized i didn't change the boot sequence to go straight to the cd so i think i fixed it. I'll ask you questions if it still doesn't work. Thanks anyway though man :p
Thank you for the suggestion literally 2 minutes after i posted this i realized i didn't change the boot sequence to go straight to the cd so i think i fixed it. I'll ask you questions if it still doesn't work. Thanks anyway though man :p