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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
I ususally find a way to messup MS in bizaare ways. Probably my history as their birth caused us to get off a mainframe onto 8" floppies. In one case, on an Asus 18.9" 64 bit Windows Home Premium, with (past tense) 4 partitions, I can get to the Bios but it is stuck on a setting called "Don't Boot" or the equivalent. I suppose they have their reasoins. There are no other options, even if I could get away from that one, which I can't. The ethernet connection won't work of course. I know this response is late.
It's past warranty I'm sure so maybe I'll give Geeksquad or J&R a try. I won't use Staples anymore after, and you really can't believe this, I went in a week after I'm fairly sure I left something I bought there (I know. A week) and one of the two new people there said he was going into another room (Where?) to look at the Surveillance footage from that day a week before! I thought I was in a casino, and waited at least a hald an hour! I talked later to someone who, and it's obvious anyway, said no way. On a roll here. I also did something brilliant with a Toshiba Qosimo same specs, except one partition only, and tried pluugin the power into a USB mutli port adapter when it was in and on. Zap. Nothing. The Motherboard maybe? I'll get to that soon as well! I've tris almost every book disk I can find or make. Even the reliable English ones were of no use. They were on 1.44 mb but floppies saved my day more than once.
I wasn't sure how all this worked here on this Thread and haven't been in my Hotmail for a while. Excuse me and thank you.
it is next to imposible to offer help when the pc make ,model ,ram ,and win ? bit ? are not known .
hi there,
i did step 4 and thats how i got to where i am now. bootmsg missing. so what do i do now?
Wow, just, wow, they are reliable but they are nowhere near as cool as a windows pc.
