When booting VISTA it checks the hard drives then displays "Bootmgr is missing" and "press control/alt/delete to continue". This process will go in an endless loop. Have used the original Vista install disk to try to repair it, and it allows to boot up but only after using the Vista disk. Problem remains.
Fresh reload of Vista does same. Prior saves from Acronis True Image, same. New Harddrive tried with fresh Acronis copy does the same.
Vista repair facility on disk indicates {9DEA862C-5CDD-4E70-ACC1-F32B344D4795} file is apparently the culprit that it [tries to fix].
Board is a Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H. Does anyone know if this file might be resident in/ or affected by the Motherboard BIOS? Or, if a current BIOS flash would maybe fix the issue?
A thread on this forum, supposedly fixing this problem, goes through the Command Promp process and one of the entries is supposed to be:
"ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old" <enter> which is "not a valid entry". So that did not work.
Thoughts??
Thanks kindly!
