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I added a solid state drive last night. I then used Norton Ghost 15 to copy my old drive to my new one. I started the copy process and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning the PC was off. I unplugged the old hard drive and turned the PC on. I then saw the BOOTMGR is missing message. I...

i have "imaged" my system drive using DriveImage XML I set it as active with windows disk manager. but when I try to boot it tells me that BOOTMGR is missing. however, bootmgr exists on the system reserved partition it is also in windows\boot\pcat and under windows\winsxs\......... so what is...

Recently I need to "disable drivers signature enforcement" otherwise the network adapter, sound adapter and USB adapters do not work. I would like them to work normally. I have installed the latest drivers from Biostar for the G41-M7 mobo. No change. I have tried to go to to a previous...

I've discovered this a.m. that I can't access Safe Mode through the normal F8. I used to listen to the post beep and then press F8 once and I'd be straight in. Now pushing F8 once or repeatedly tapping F8 just carries on to the normal boot. What have I changed recently? Well, I removed Windows...

Configuration:Disk 0 - System [C] - [special library folders pointed to D] Disk 1 - Data [D] - [changed to X for volume encryption process] Disk 2 - Copy Data [E] - [mirror of D] I have used truecrypt system encryption to encrypt Disk 0 I changed the drive letter of Disk 1 to X as I want...

Hello i got a mysterious problem going on in my pc. i reinstalled my windows7 5-6 times by now. and 2 diff problems can accure. some times when i gotten my pc reinstalled ill get massive boot problems my pc get stuck on the windows fayding boot logo and need to restart 10-12 times befor it...

Hi all, on start up i am getting, A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart", but when i press,"Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" , it always returns to" A disk read error occurred" . i also cant access safe mode (F8). Any help would be appreciated, thanks. James

hey, im having a problem with system crashing and then the inability to reboot with a manual reset. if i hold the power key to power off the system then i can boot back into windows. here is some info. on the symptoms of the crash. i have set my computer to never sleep before the crashes...

Not sure what to do everytime i start windows screen pops up, then resets, plus repeats i can access safe mode sometimes, like 1 in 10 tries safe mode with command works Anyone have any ideas what to do it is a tosiba qosmio and about 3 months old. last thing installed on nov.25 (according...

I got this computer back in June of this year... Ever since I get Blue Screens (even in initial setup - which I was able to complete sucessfully!) on cold start up. It usually happens about 1-2 minutes after logging on and running any program. Originally thought it was a memory problem -...

Hello, I've read through several forums trying to fix my chkdsk issue to no avail. Here is my situation and what I've done so far: When I would start my computer a black screen saying that my hard drive was going to fail soon would load before start up. When windows loaded I was in C...

Hello there, my bootmgr and my Boot folder is on my partition where I use to save my files for a format...They are on F:/ How can I move them to C:/ (Primary System partition)? (BCDEDIT can do that?) Will it be better to move them to C:/ or not? what if I format C:/? they will still stay in...

hello. i mounted an unbootable iso image via power iso and forgot about it when i rebooted my computer now when i try to boot into windows i cannot boot up because of a screen that sais "boot from cd_" failed solutions: pressing f8 to get to the safe mode options loading optimized defaults...

Hello folks, I have a easyNote LJ61 with SB700 chipset. The cdrom Slimtype DVD A DS8A3S ATA does not display on my computer browser. When I insert a cd then the drive then it will be shows on the browser but after several second the cdrom drive disappeared again. I think there is a...

I can display my BCD with: bcdedit /enum /store c:\boot\bcd But then how do I edit that file, or better still, how do I get bcdedit.exe to find it without specifying the location?

I was trying to edit my PATH environment variable and accidentally deleted it. Is there any way to recover it? If not, is there anyone out there who can tell me what the default path variable should be? I'm afraid to turn off my computer without fixing this as I'm not sure if it will be able...

I got two these I want to chat about with you guys. Right when I start my pc, the bootloader comes up where you pick which os you want to go into, since I dont use Vista anymore or Ubuntu ones that I installed with Wubi, I want to delete them, but I dont know how can someone tell me how to...

I was using GParted to grow a partition and about 5% into the grow process I canceled it, because it was taking an amazingly long time to do 30+ estimated hours for a 140gb grow...seemed ridiculous to me. Anyways after I restarted chkdsk ran and went through the HD and finished and then windows...

i am getting some boot errors saying that some file were missing :eek: bootmsg file cannot be found please help me