I need help from a programmer or something please!! - BOOTMGR is missing?

Question

Hi recently ran my recovery disc on my home toshiba satellite M100 notebook computer. After running when i tried to boot up it displays a message in was looks like MS - DOS. The message reads:

BOOTMGR is missing

Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart.

after rebooting it still displays this message. What can i do?

HELP!

Answer 1

The problem is you might have busted your boot loader when you used that recovery disc.

The idea would be to install Windows nicely and cleanly and forget about recovery disks. Or, in your particular case, you could get yourself a Windows install disk and try to repair your current one (when you boot from your Windows install disk, there's an option to press "R" to repair, that's what you are looking for).

The difficulty with this is that the Widnows disk might not have the necessary drivers for your laptop hardware and might not recognize your HDD(s), so there really is no "simple" way to do it. If you get jammed at any point, just abort the setup BEFORE it's begun copying any files (after that there should be no problems).

My years of PC repairs have taught me that "recovery disks" arer only guaranteed to work properly when the machine has not been modified in any way (hardware OR software), which is a one-in-a-hundred occurrence. You just happened to be in the other 99.

Answer 2

I Know how to fix it

just click delete when you restart windows

and click load optimized defaults then save and quit

and it will work 100%

Answer 3

It looks like either your OS didn't install correctly, or you hard drive went bad.  If I were you, I would try to reformat your hard drive and then reinstall your OS.  If it does the same thing after you try the second tme, the your hard drive needs to be replaced.  Also, some computers come with Window Media Center button that you can press and your computer's media center will come on without you hving to turn on your computer.  If your computer has this, make sure you have your Media Direct disk.  I have a Dell laptop, two actually, and this same thing happened to me.  What I ended up having to do is actually read (lol) the media direct dsk directions.  I had to reformat the drive with the os first, then  took out the disk, and iserted the media direct disk, turned the computer off and ten back on.  After I pressed the proper button to boot from the cd or dvd drive, it loaded media direct.  I just followed the onscreen directions.  After it loaded and then said to take disk out and reinsert the os disk, I did that, pressed the proper key, booted from the cd/dvd drive, and then i reinstalled my OS.  after my os was reinstalled, and the puter booted up, I took out the os, reinserted the media direct disk, and let it finish installing.  Reason I am saying this to you is because the first times I had to reinstall the os on my puter, I didn't install media direct right, and once I pressed the media direct button to run that without turning on the pc, it automatically wiped away my whole newly reinstalled os, and I had to do it again. But when i did that first press of the media direct button, and then tried to boot up the computer, I got the same error that you got.  I hope this helps.