BOOTMGR not found

[Guest]

Trying to reset up a drive that has been formatted. However, No matter how I
try and boot it, all I recieve is the black screen that says BOOTMGR not
found, CTRL ALT DELETE to restart.

I've tried booting from 2 different windows cd's, but can't get anything to
push past this screen.

It's been along time, and I'm getting frustrated. Any help or suggestions?

 

[Admiral Q]

Trying to reset up a drive that has been formatted. However, No matter
how I
try and boot it, all I recieve is the black screen that says BOOTMGR not
found, CTRL ALT DELETE to restart.

I've tried booting from 2 different windows cd's, but can't get anything
to
push past this screen.

It's been along time, and I'm getting frustrated. Any help or
suggestions?

Sounds as if at one time a 3rd party boot manager was installed - thus over
writing sector 0 - the boot sector, and the boot code is still looking for
the old boot manager.

You need to over write this code with the MS boot code - either boot with a
windows CD, into the recovery console (don't remember exact steps but search
Google) and once in the RC command line, use the "fixmbr" command. If that
is not an easy task, and you do have a floppy drive with and access to an
old DOS/Win98 boot disk, then boot to the DOS prompt and type in "fdisk
/mbr" - either of these should tell the BIOS to boot to XP properly. Note,
be sure you have your data saved, as you may have to reload everything from
scratch, depending on how the old 3rd Party Boot Manager altered the
partition tables - you may have to delete/recreate/reformat before
reinstalling.

 

[peter]

Other than what "Admiral Q" said.......you do have the CD drive as the 1st
boot device listed in the BIOS as you are trying to boot from the XP
CD..right???
Peter

 

[Guest]

Ok, don't have a floppy drive on it but would be willing to scrape one up to
try, cuz the cd's sure aren't getting me past the bootmgr missing screen.

 

[Guest]

And yes... I can get into the setup screen and have re-ordered the boot
priority. Yet before it even gets to checking the cd drive, the bootmgr is
missing screen comes on, and I can't get past it.