Windows 7 Boot Manager Missing/Boot from USB Drive

[TreadLight]

For some odd reason, after doing some changes to my partitions in Windows 7 and restarting my computer, I got the ol' "BOOTMGR is missing" message. I have the Windows 7 Repair Disc image file and a 4GB USB Flash Drive, but, sadly, no CDs. Is there any way that I can put the image file onto my USB Flash Drive and boot from it with my Acer Aspire X1200 desktop computer? Thanks in advance.

 

[tblount]

Yes, with another computer. Use Xcopy to copy everything to the usb.... move the usb to the broken computer and set the bios to boot to usb. Actually you only need 3 files from the repair disk.... I'm doing this from memory so I may make a mistake.... but I think they are:

1. bootmger from root
2. bcd from /boot
3. bootwim from /sources

They have to go in the same locations on the usb

I think you can just change to the usb and run

xcopy x:\bootmgr
xcopy x:\bcd /s
xcopy x:\*.wim /s

and it will build the usb correctly...