bootmgr missing
Posted: 22 Jul 2012, 18:37
After my bootmgr was missing, I downloaded the Vista Recovery CD from Neosmart. I choose Automated Repair and got to see two hard drives (which is correct). With either one I can choose either System Restore or Automated Repair. I've tried both options with each drive, but unfortunately I keep getting the message: The selected partition does not contain a valid Windows installation. You've either selected a data drive, or the volume has been formatted and cannot be repaired.
On my question what to do next on the Neosmart-forum, someone advised me to type in testdisk. I did, but I'm completely lost what to do here. I followed some instructions from your wiki-page, but I'm not even sure what to do. I don't even know whether I'm posting this in the right category! So please excuse me if I'm not correct in this.
I choose Create a new log file and after that I saw three partitions, which is strange, 2 I knew of, but 1 of 42 mB is unknown to me. One extra problem is that I don't know which partition contains my Windows installation, because I've had two earlier crashes the past year (!) and a few hard drives were replaced. Anyhow, I choose one, but didn't get any notification of missing things. I did do a quick search, but that also didn't give anything. Now I'm busy doing the deaper search, but that is taking a long time.
I decided to ask for help first, because I simply don't know what I'm doing. Can anyone tell me which action I should be taking with my specific problem (bootmgr missing)?
On my question what to do next on the Neosmart-forum, someone advised me to type in testdisk. I did, but I'm completely lost what to do here. I followed some instructions from your wiki-page, but I'm not even sure what to do. I don't even know whether I'm posting this in the right category! So please excuse me if I'm not correct in this.
I choose Create a new log file and after that I saw three partitions, which is strange, 2 I knew of, but 1 of 42 mB is unknown to me. One extra problem is that I don't know which partition contains my Windows installation, because I've had two earlier crashes the past year (!) and a few hard drives were replaced. Anyhow, I choose one, but didn't get any notification of missing things. I did do a quick search, but that also didn't give anything. Now I'm busy doing the deaper search, but that is taking a long time.
I decided to ask for help first, because I simply don't know what I'm doing. Can anyone tell me which action I should be taking with my specific problem (bootmgr missing)?