BOOTMGR is missing? new hard drive.

[Roomka]

hey if someone can help me out with this its much appreciated, i basically bought a new hard drive and connected to my laptop and now have a " Bootmgr missing"

i have the oem windows 7 disk inside the computer and went to bios to set 1st drive as cd/dvd and second as hdd and still nothing.

 

[Bman123]

Every time I have seen this happen I have had to reinstall windows but I was always able to reinstall with the cd dvd drive set first and booted from the cd. Are you sure it is saving the bios changes when you back out?

 

[Roomka]

yeah i press f10 and save and exit

 

[KillerBee]

I would suspect a bad CD ...Try downloading to create new disk and using your key with one of the these
(whichever version matches yours)

http://www.mydigitallife.info/downl...cial-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-links/

If it doesn't work because of key mismatch (OEM vs Retail) you can try booting with new then swap in your original OEM to finish

 

[Roomka]

do i need to format the hard drive before connecting it to my laptop?, i checked the disk on another pc and it worked.

 

[KillerBee]

Don't need to format HD first...another option is create a bootable USB
using your other computer.

Will need to create an ISO of your disk first using something like Imgburner
http://www.imgburn.com/


then use netbootin to create the bootable USB
http://jaxov.com/2009/09/install-windows-7-from-usb-stick-easily-unetbootin/

or use this tool to create the USB
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html

 

[Roomka]

so your saying instead of booting windows off a cd you want me to do it with a usb memory stick?, i also downloaded a ISO image of windows 7 off microsoft.com

 

[KillerBee]

so your saying instead of booting windows off a cd you want me to do it with a usb memory stick?, i also downloaded a ISO image of windows 7 off microsoft.com

yes ...never hurts to try

 

[Roomka]

nope still said bootmgr missing, but it was on FAT32, im format it and try ntfs, and also the flash drive is called a "removable device" in the bios?