Comments on: Fixing "BOOTMGR is missing" Error While Trying to Boot Windows Vista

By: P Speering

P Speering — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:15:18 +0000

The command “bootrec /fixboot” worked for me!!!

My PC is back to a normal restart.

Thank You Very much HT Geek Masters!

By: Cristobal Miguelo

Cristobal Miguelo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:04:16 +0000

If you have more than one hard drive in your system during a custom install, the cause may be that Windows installed the BOOTMGR on the drive that appeared higher on the list of drives in the installation program. You may notice that if you select your other drive as your boot device, your computer will boot up. If this is the case, do the following:

Solution: Disconnect the other disk and run the various fix commands (bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /RebuildBcd), as necessary until the thing boots without that other disk present.

Failing that, reinstall and disconnect all other drives except for the one you want to install to.

Best,
C

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:44:07 +0000

I downloaded and tried installing Windows Vista 32-bit – 64-bit recovery cd and still the only message that I am getting is BOOTMGR is missing.

I don’t think that there actually is a proper download to fix this problem…

By: zah

zah — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:57:37 +0000

hi, I have a problem in Activating my Windows vista ultimate 32-bit. After formating my system i installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista ult 32-bit and after installing the same i tried to activate the same and found that error that my key is already in use and asked me to enter another key or activate using the phone system. so please kindly help me. iam given 30 days to activate the same.

By: Akmal Siddiqui

Akmal Siddiqui — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:07:05 +0000

Thank you very much your solution worked!!

By: jim

jim — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:11:31 +0000

i diddd itttt…. wwwoooooo hooooooooo…. fkin missing mgr … you js have to have a boot up cd… if you dont have it.. download off net.. which ever one you need… stick it in your “DVD” drive… n start your comp.. make sure youve set the boot process from hard drive to cd rom drive.. pressing f8 will give you options to repair computer.. n follow instructions.. im not a computer man but this problem pissd me off.. if you need further info js write.. ill try answer.. good luck..

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:45:49 +0000

If you have a computer with two Hard Drives, then you will need to go into your Bios. Go to your boot menu and select hard drives and swap them by using the (-) or (+) on your Number Pad. This fixed my problem when I formatted my C drive and reinstalled vista and started getting this error.

Typically people do not set the jumper on hard drives to set primary and primary slave configurations so Bios will presume the hard drive in highest boot priority to have an OS and will not search the second “Primary” Hard Drive because there should only be one primary hard drive.

I know different people suggested the Bios as a solution to this problem, but I don’t know if anyone went into detail concerning the priority order of Hard Drives. So if you have two hard drives in your computer this is most likely your solution.

Cheers

By: Camham26

Camham26 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:43:23 +0000

i have this problem on my alienware and when i put in vista cd it doesnt start i just bought windows too. Could i restart it with that?

By: Aleksandar

Aleksandar — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:02:50 +0000

Help pls . On my lap top was windows xp pro but I formatted the hard disk end I try to install vista home premium but after that Eroor code 0×80070017 now I have that 2 problems BootMGR ! what i have to do ?

By: chad

chad — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:29:07 +0000

For me it was as simple as turning off an eternal USB disk I had set up to backup Windows 7. I think I have USB in front of HDD in the boot order so I have to remember to leave that off when starting my system.