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Hello,
I receive the error “Bootmgr is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart” when I start Windows. I have found the issue but I don’t see a good solution. What’s the best way to fix this issue?
Thanks
LD
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Hello LD,
This message usually indicates that the boot sector is damaged or missing. The boot sector is a region of your hard disk that contains information that is used to load your operating system. If a boot failure is detected when your PC is starting, you may receive this error message.
To resolve this issue, use the steps in the following KB article:
You receive Error message: “Bootmgr is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart” when starting Windows
Hope this helps,
Bobby
One of the causes of the "BootMGR is missing Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" is the need to cool and clean up your computer.
After 4 different times on occurring of the very same message and having applied all your suggestions with no more than a few hours or days success, I lost my patience and on the 5th time that it happened (the machine was working normally and suddenly reboot itself and shows the damned message) and without engaging on any attempt to solve the issue, I simply opened the machine, carefully cleaned all the fans including the processor's with a gentle brush.
Miracle!!!
The machine simply started without any problems as if the issue never existed.
Conclusion:
Apart viruses, corrupt files or sections on the disk, or any other expert indicated problem, your machine can simply need a clean up and/or better cooling system for it (the damned message) also went away when I turned the AC on before implementing the expert solutions for several times before success.
This worked but for one of my computers I had to run through Method 1 twice.
my compute os is vista model is advent 7201 1 gb
Hello LD,
This message usually indicates that the boot sector is damaged or missing. The boot sector is a region of your hard disk that contains information that is used to load your operating system. If a boot failure is detected when your PC is starting, you may receive this error message.
To resolve this issue, use the steps in the following KB article:
You receive Error message: “Bootmgr is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart” when starting Windows
Hope this helps,
Bobby
That link requires a disc i bought this 2nd hand with no discs what can i do also any advice on why online games won't work properly on my comp for instance ball games like pool the balls will keep stopping and starting going super slow this has been happening on all games for last month before that they all worked fine that is the reason i wanted to go back to factory settings how can do it with no discs
ps sorry for the bad grammar it's not my strongpoint i don't know where the marks are supposed to and when
