Good morning, I tried looking around the messages and found some reference to this error, but none of the solutions worked. I am replacing my hard drive and am using Ghost 15. I made the boot up disc and backed up my old hard drive. I then put my new hard drive in and used the disc to boot up. I then recovered the information from an external back up source. When the new hard drive re-booted I get the error "bootmgr is missing". The problem is I can not get any further. Any solutions to get around this problem? I am back on my old hard drive tryng to find he solution. Thank you for your help.
Good morning, I tried looking around the messages and found some reference to this error, but none of the solutions worked. I am replacing my hard drive and am using Ghost 15. I made the boot up disc and backed up my old hard drive. I then put my new hard drive in and used the disc to boot up. I then recovered the information from an external back up source. When the new hard drive re-booted I get the error "bootmgr is missing". The problem is I can not get any further. Any solutions to get around this problem? I am back on my old hard drive tryng to find he solution. Thank you for your help.
What options did you choose when you did the restore to the new disk? Did you set it as ACTIVE?
Look at THIS POST for more information.
After reading some more on the forum, I was able to get past this screen. Now I am having other errors that I have seen already on the website. Thank you
How did you fix it? What are your other problems?
I forgot to change my boot configuration to boot by the CD. I was able to hit F2 to get into the system and enable my boot from CD and other sources. Then at the first screen I hit F12 to get a listing of where the system could boot from and I selected by CD . From there I was able to get into the system recover screen. The new error is at the end of the recovery - "error EA390013: at end of something". I am not sure what this means. I have tried different ways of recovery and this keeps popping up. When recovering I make sure my C: drive is active and the master boot system is copied, but can not get any further. I seem to have four drives:
Acer C:
Data D:
PCServices
*"/"
Can you put the old drive back in and look in disk management?
If you see any other hidden partitions, please note them, where they are located and what the active partition is.
Or post a screen shot:
Dave
Not sure where disk management is on the Vista system. I am use to Windows XP or 2003. Still learning Vista.
According to Norton Back up I have 4 partitions:
PQSERVICE (*:\)
(*:\)
Acer (C:\)
Data (D:\)
Print screen of device manager which does not shoe all the partitions and Norton back up.
It takes a while before we can see the image. You can see it right away but it needs to be approved before we can see it.
I'm not familiar with Acer's but it looks like you have another partition that really is the active partition.
In visa go to: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.
Then on the left side click Disk Management.
For your primary hard drive (Disk 0) what does it say for "PQservice"?
Does it show that partition before the C drive and is it maked active?
How big it it and is there another hidden "recovery partition"?
Dave
I found the disk management. Here is a screen print from my system.
Being a Sunday it may take longer to get the images approved by a moderator.
Is it like I described, with a hidden "PQservice" partition before the C drive and it is marked active?
By "before" I mean that it is shown to the left of the Vista C partition.
Dave
I have four partitions:
Volume - Status
PQSERVICE:\ - EISA Configuration
*:\ - EISA Configuration
ACER (C:) System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition
DATA (D:) Primary Partition
OK thanks. I thought the astrik * was marking it as an active partition, but it's not.
I still don't know what it is but I will assume it's some kind of recovery partition or it has some diagnostic tools in it that you boot to by pressing a certain key at boot.
Visa and Windows 7 boot by partition signature but it also is dependant of the starting location of the front of the partition.
Restoring the Vista partition without the PQservice partition would put the Vista partition at the very front of the drive and you would need to do a startup repair at that point to correct the boot.
If you have Vista with SP2 installed I'm pretty sure you can make a statup repair disk. Then you should be able to restore the C drive by it'self and run the startup repair.
Or, If the partition is small and your new hard drive is a lot bigger than you can just restore both of them.
One thing to note, if your restoring the C partition by it'self the Ghost recovery disk may show "phantom" partitions. When the partition layout changes it has a way of showing these phantom drives by information contained in the image.
Those pantom drives need to be deleted before you do the restore. That may have been what gave you the error you had.
Dave