SELECT DISK N and press Enter (N represents the disk you want). If it’s still not successful or you receive ‘No operating system found’ or ‘Element not found’ messages, go back to the Command Prompt and make the partition active by typing these commands: If the above doesn't cure the problem, go back to the Repair Option and this time choose Command Prompt, then type these 4 commands (in all instances the capitals are for clarity only):ģ. Boot from the Windows DVD and run the Startup Repair several times.Ģ. Whether you have corruption to the bootmgr file or it is missing, the following should help to resolve it.ġ. Thank you in advance forĪny expert assistance you may be able to provide! :-) Is there any way for me to restore the Boot Manager without destroying healthy, salvageable data? Getting back to work on the stricken PC is extremely urgent, so a quick, accurate and thorough reply would be greatly appreciated.
Most, if not all, data should still be fine, since Vista finds nothing wrong with the disk itself:Īll other Startup Repair tests complete successfully without any errors. Unfortunately, we do not have a recent disk or data backup and cannot afford to lose any salvageable data on drive C. The end result is that now the Startup Repair utility finds 1 (one) Root Cause for the system's failure to boot, which is "Boot manager is missing or corrupt".Įven though there have been fairly recent Restore Points taken, and stored on hard disk D:, which is a 10GB partition of the 450GB physical drive, running the System Restore option yields the result "No restore points have been created on your computer's Upon restarting the system, unlike during previous -and similar- system crashes, Vista found a number of disk errors, which it tried to repair. We had a power failure due to the current heat wave and, long story short, our Windows Vista desktop PC crashed.
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