BOOTMGR is Missing and BSODs

Syribo

Syribo

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I originally made a post in the Disk Storage System forum, but now I have a problem that is affecting my entire OS it seems... Here is the original post I made:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1319159

Please read that, if you decide to help.. That way I don't have to type it all out again here ;)

I'm really.. really aggravated right now. I keep doing the Repair thing, and still nothing is working. I just keep getting BOOTMGR is missing over and over again...........

Any ideas??? I really don't want to have to reformat.. Again..

Tried 'System Restore' and it's STILL happening... What.. the... hell.....
 
go into the bios and make sure that that harddrive is set to be the first thing to boot from.
 
Now I just got another BSOD:
STOP: 0x0000007E error....

EDIT : Okay, went into the BIOS and changed the boot menu to make it boot from the primary drive and Vista is loading now...

So now there's still the problem with the HDD... It doesn't seem to be dead since I was able to partition and format it... I'm going to try connecting it by eSATA once again to see what happens, now that it's formatted and partitioned..

EDIT2: Got Vista going, and I once again placed the HDD into the external enclosure, connected the eSATA wires, and... nothing still.
 
Ok so Vista is running fine now, right? No more BSODs?

So what happens when that eSATA drive is connected? It doesn't show up?

Also, don't boot the system with the eSATA drive still connected. It screws up your boot order.
 
Danny Bui said:
Ok so Vista is running fine now, right? No more BSODs?

So what happens when that eSATA drive is connected? It doesn't show up?

Also, don't boot the system with the eSATA drive still connected. It screws up your boot order.
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Vista is okay now, it seems.

When I go into the BIOS to look at the devices, it does not come up. It just says eSATA Device not Detected.

I went into the RAID Controller Options and instead of IDE, I changed it to something else.. AHCI? And when I restarted, after the regular POST screen.. another screen came up showing my HDD. It just said the model number, and how big it is (It also came up in a cyan like color). Then my system started as usual...

Once it started up, it started installing drivers for a device. After it was done, I checked, and the drive is still not being detected within Vista. I don't see it anywhere. I tried turning it off, and back on again, and still nothing.
 
Instead of plugging the external drive into the motherboards eSATA ports, I put in one of the eSATA brackets (Connected to its own SATA port), and tried the HDD that way... Still nothing.

I'm getting so frustrated... It seems to just be an eSATA problem since when just connected to a SATA port, the drive was detected. I tried googling for the same problem, but have not found one answer... It also doesn't work when I connect it via USB either.
 
Syribo said:
I'm getting so frustrated... It seems to just be an eSATA problem since when just connected to a SATA port, the drive was detected. I tried googling for the same problem, but have not found one answer... It also doesn't work when I connect it via USB either.
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So when you connected it straight up to the onboard SATA port, the drive was detected, formatted, and could actually be used? Are you using the same enclosure to connect via USB and eSATA? If yes to both, it could be an enclosure problem not a drive problem.
 
Okay... The drive is now working, but I'm not actually sure how.. Here's what I did:
(First, I have three HDD's.. The boot drive, a second drive, and now the new drive)
I took my Secondary drive out of my system and put it in the enclosure instead.
Turned on the computer and voila, the drive worked fine.
So I turned the computer off, put in the new drive again, turned it on and...
It worked. It was detected right when Windows started up.
I formatted it, and now I'm moving files over onto it and everything seems great.

I'm not sure why switching the HDD's in and out helped... But I'm just glad it's working right now! Now I hope it stays that way ;)
 
have you tried booting from your windows CD and repairing your installation? that worked for me the last time i got BOOTMGR MISSING
 
It sounds like the Enclosure isn't working... if I was reading all that correctly. Which enclosure do you have? Which drive? Oh, I guess I should read that other thread, huh? :p

Ok, Antec MX-1 and a 'cuda.11 500GB.

So, have you tried the drive via USB? BTW, to initialize, partition, and format the drive, just run diskmgmt.msc from the run dialog box (Windows + R).
 
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