How-To Geek

Hi,

I recently bought a new SSD (G drive currently) and installed windows 7 professional (OEM) on it. I have another hard drive (in C drive) with windows vista.

I am trying to boot from G drive. When I make this the drive to boot from at BIOS, I get a message "Bootmgr is missing; Press clt+alt+del to restart". Key board does not work at this point. However, when I make C drive the 1st choice to boot in BIOS, windows starts but then I can not choose between vista, windows 7 or even press F8 for safe mode. Basically keyboard stops working here too.

Since I am using OEM version, I don't have "repair from windows DVD" option either. And I did not get a chance to make the recovery disk. I already tried formatting the new hard drive and doing a clean installation of the new OS.

Please help me figure out where the problem could be. Eventually, I don't plan to use windows vista at all and format C drive to use it for some other purpose.

Motherboard is X58 Deluxe.

Thank you whs.

I was going to try what whs suggested. So, I formatted the G drive. I restarted the computer to go to BIOS and change the 1st choice of Boot.

So now the problem is I can not get into BIOS. The default OS is windows 7 ( even though I already uninstalled it). And my keyboard does not work while booting.

Please help!

It was built by one of my colleagues.

I removed the battery in the mobo. so, I can go to BIOS now.

I tried to boot using the Windows 7 installation CD but once it boots and enters windows, I can not get further.

Please suggest.

Did re-setup the Bios the way it should be after you installed a new battery ??