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fazle Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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Smart failure.. bootmgr is missing..I have recovery discs but dvd player is not working

I tried to restore C: drive using VAIO RECOVERY CENTER, but it did not restore it completely and terminated at 75% displaying a message- there is an error executing a program,shut down and try again.When I shut it down and restarted, it showed BOOTMGR IS MISSING press ALT+ CTRL + DEL to restart.I have tried to restore it several times but it always displays the same message. Now it is showing an additional error of SMART FAILURE PREDICTECTED. and.so on and press F1 to continue. When I press F1 it show BOOTMGR IS MISSING I have the recovery DVDs but the DVD player is not working.I have tried to install pirated windows but couldn't install it. Can I make a bootable pen drive from my recovery discs (genuine pre-installed windows) ? your suggestions are very important

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Yes, you can make USB boot drive. However main problem is the Smart... error. It is your hard drive. You need to fix that first! Try reseating the drive. Next go into BIOS by pressing F key during boot. Might be F2? Make sure BIOS recognizes the hard drive.

Once you get the drive going again, you can start the install / repair again. USB drive tool.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

  • Anonymous Oct 12, 2012

    There is a chance the hard drive is bad, and needs to be replaced.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 30, 2008

SOURCE: Acer Aspire 5315 Booting Error

check in bios the first boot device is the cd/dvd rom then you try to reload the os

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Tony Groves

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  • Posted on Mar 29, 2010

SOURCE: Bootmgr is missing on Windows XP System. Gateway

Download this Recovery Console BootCD
http://www.thecomputerparamedic.com/files/rc.iso

Burn the image (ISO) to CD.
Boot from the newly created Recovery Console BootCD
Log into the Administrator account (press 1 then press enter)
On the command prompt type: chkdsk c: /r (and then press enter) Note one space after "c:")
Once CheckDisk has finished repairing the faults, type Exit, and then Restart (remove the BootCD)

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 24, 2010

SOURCE: I have acer aspire 4810T . i got windows vista

1.Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD drive, and then restart the computer.
2.Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD drive if you are prompted.
3.When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
4.Press 1 (One) to select windows XP and then hit enter.
5.When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER.
6.At the command prompt, Type Bootrec /RebuildBcd and then press ENTER.
7.If the Bootrec.exe tool runs successfully, it presents you with an installation path of a Windows directory. To add the entry to the BCD store, type yes. A confirmation message appears that indicates the entry was added successfully.
8.If the Bootrec.exe tool cannot locate any missing Windows installations, you must remove the BCD store, and then you must re-create it. To do this, type the following commands in the order in which they are presented. Press ENTER after each command.
Bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup

ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old

Bootrec /rebuildbcd

1.Restart the computer

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 24, 2010

SOURCE: Bootmgr is missing on Windows XP System. Gateway

1.Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD drive, and then restart the computer.
2.Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD drive if you are prompted.
3.When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
4.Press 1 (One) to select windows XP and then hit enter.
5.When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER.
6.At the command prompt, Type Bootrec /RebuildBcd and then press ENTER.
7.If the Bootrec.exe tool runs successfully, it presents you with an installation path of a Windows directory. To add the entry to the BCD store, type yes. A confirmation message appears that indicates the entry was added successfully. 8.If the Bootrec.exe tool cannot locate any missing Windows installations, you must remove the BCD store, and then you must re-create it. To do this, type the following commands in the order in which they are presented. Press ENTER after each command.
Bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup

ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old

Bootrec /rebuildbcd

1.Restart the computer

Florin

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  • Posted on Mar 01, 2012

SOURCE: bootmgr missing

hello,

please try with a liveCd (ubuntu/windows)after that it should boot the OS you want to instal.

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