BootMGR Is Missing after restoring Windows 7

Archive
1

Have a Dell Optiplex W7 64. Purchased the same exact model, BUT the hard drive is smaller (500gb vs. 1TB) Data is only 100GB. That might be irrelevant.

I have restored the image to the backup machine twice now. I have attached a pic of the options, but I would have assumed these would have been correct? However, after it reboots, get the BOOTMGR Missing CTRL-ALT-DEL

Any ideas on this? Any help or suggestions are appreciated. I know there is talk about the 100MB boot partition. I do not know if you have to select that when doing the backups or it does it automatically.

1) How do I check if the Boot partition is being backed up

2) if it IS being backed up, how do I properly restore it to the new computer so it can boot?

Al

2
DStain wrote:
if you could post a pic of disk management (use little green tree) right click computer icon, manage and disk management

 

We certainly need it.

3

I have attached a couple of images. 1 of the restore, another of the backup selection for the daily backups, and 1 of the DiskMgr.

 

I don't understand because the active is a 13GB Restore Partition, not a 100MB. This is a DELL Optiplex, and they usually don't have any restore utilities, only the home ones (Dimension and Vostro) usually have them.

 

Anyhow, I did notice in the restore selection, the Restore partition is NOT selected. I don't remember even being given an option to choose which options to restore. Maybe I need to delete partitions on the new box?

 

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/ghost1x.png/

 

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/215/burnspartitions.png/

 

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/31/img01039201202231102.jpg/

 

 

Al

4

amucci,

First of all we need to establish exactly what you are trying to do,

 

1. Backup the existing laptop.

2. Run a drive copy to replace the existing drive , or

3. Transfer an image of the existing laptop to the new one.

 

I ask these questions because of the confusion over your first post.

When you take a pic you can use the snipping tool and post it using the little green tree in the task bar above, that is the preferred method on this forum.

 

Deric

 

5

amucci,

 

This is how Dell set up the partitions. The Recovery partition contains the booting files (System, Active) so if you don't copy (or restore) it to the new HD you don't have a BootMGR.

 

But it is esy to fix without starting again. Boot from your Windows DVD and do two Repairs. The first repair finds the OS and the second repair finds a big menu where you choose Startup Repair. Win7 will then boot as the repair creates booting files in the Win7 partition. You can forget about the Recovery partition.

6

Your 3'rd screen shot of the recovery shows you set the operating system partition as active when it sould have been the recovery patition.

If indeed you restored all 3 partitions you may be able to just change the active partition to the second one.

 

Here is how to create a startup repair disk, you can make one on your working system and use it on the backup system.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5409/create-a-system-repair-disc-in-windows-7/

That page also shows how to do the startup repair.

 

Dave

7

I fixed it with the W7 CD. Run ran the Startup Repair a couple of times and all set. Thanks guys!

 

Al

8

Have a Dell Optiplex W7 64. Purchased the same exact model, BUT the hard drive is smaller (500gb vs. 1TB) Data is only 100GB. That might be irrelevant.

I have restored the image to the backup machine twice now. I have attached a pic of the options, but I would have assumed these would have been correct? However, after it reboots, get the BOOTMGR Missing CTRL-ALT-DEL

Any ideas on this? Any help or suggestions are appreciated. I know there is talk about the 100MB boot partition. I do not know if you have to select that when doing the backups or it does it automatically.

1) How do I check if the Boot partition is being backed up

2) if it IS being backed up, how do I properly restore it to the new computer so it can boot?

Al