I just installed Fedora 12 onto my free psace partition and now when i try to switch back to my Windows 7 partition it tells me my bootmgr is missing. I have tried both the restoring the startup and the command prompt bootrec /fixboot using the Windows 7 disk. How do i fix this problem?
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(Solved) - BOOTMGR is missing
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choobert,
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Bootrec.exe options.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
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Regards,
Rick P.
I used the link and used the cmd to use
Bootrec.exe /FixBoot
and after
Bootrec.exe
bcdedit /export C:BCD_Backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBcd
After this time it failed again, yet when i again used the Windows 7 disk it told me that it found a problem with the boot up and it would repair and restart. Natrually i clicked this and still i get BOOTMGR is missing with the only option of hittin CTRL-ALT-DELETE for restart
choobert,
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My best advice is to download below, make CD, Nuke the HD and Clean Install Win7.
http://www.dban.org/download
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Read this Guide to Dual Booting.
http://apcmag.com/the_definiti.....bystep.htm
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Regards,
Rick P.
Well i have learned from another site that the problem is most likely that grub is loading /dev/sda3 instead of /dev/sda2 which i found via
su
fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
however i do not understand how to change it. i am hoping this could be the solution as i do not want to reinstall windows. Thanks.
Bhuttaz, if you are having a problem like i was try this
su
fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
to see which partition you need to boot windows 7. in my case grub was choosing the wrong one and thus it could not load. if this is the case, type the following.
gedit /etc/grub.conf
and then at the bottom it will say
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
(with a number not necessarily 2) change it and save (you can also change Other to say Windows 7 if you like) and it should be fixed. Worked for me :)
Choobert
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