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"Bootmgr is missing" no operating system

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Liux43

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Hey, my laptop is acting up and has been giving me a black screen with cursor issue lately. So I decided to do a clean install of win7. All was well and thought I installed it correctly. Upon restarting my laptop I get the dreaded "Bootmgr is Missing". So I looked up solutions and end up trying to repair using the win7 boot up disk. Then I try to just install Win7 that didn't work either. So I get either of two errors "no operating system" or I have to load up a driver of some sort. So basically, what can I do? I only have one hdd so I do not have a partitioning issue, and I've tested the hdd and memory and everything was good. Please give me advice.

Laptop Dv5
 
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sounds like it is attempting to boot off a drive that doesnt have the windows install go into the bios and check what boot order it has if it no longer shows the hard drive like i suspect you might need the hp restore disks... or a new hard drive...
 
The hard drive is still shown in the bios. I don't believe i need to replace my hdd. Before I ran the format I could start up in Safe Mode and have access to the hdd no problem
 
Well I had this issue on my Desktop. I used an upgrade disk to install from scratch and it didn't install everything it seemed. So I just kept the disk in and let it do the initial boot(bootmgr) from there. Eventually it just solved itself, really weird as after just about a month I took the disk out and it booted up fine from then. Maybe try that for a couple of weeks?(just need the disk in when booting, you can take it out when you are in windows I think) and see if it fixes itself.
 
Download a new disk off tech net or Microsoft's web site i believe they have a iso on there for you to download as a trial then all you do is put in a license key... or get a system builders image to use on it... You can also try doing it over again from scratch...
 
iso does not work as I do not have an operation system. I would like to try and use a system image, but I only want the bare minimum and not any of the files it comes with it. How can I get such a system image?
 
What are you posting off of iso get burned to dvd if the laptop you cant get to work is the only pc you have then there is very little we can do.
First let me ask did you get rid of the recovery partition in your drive if you did you probably had to do extra steps to get rid of it. From what it sounds like you did not and the pc is attempting to boot off of that. On startup the bios should give you an option to hit f12 to go into recovery if that still works then that is probably the issue... If so you can either let the recovery re image the drive to how you got it from the store which i do recommend letting it do that then you should use the fresh factory image to make recovery disks for if you sell this thing or just so you dont end up having to pay hp for recovery disks if you mess up something... But if that works then use the disk management to remove the recovery partition then format with your windows disk and gain back the 20 or so gig they allocated to recovery... If that is not going to work then skip down and read more of my post...

If you have no other pc to download and burn an iso then this is what you do.

Did you make the recovery disks for the pc? If no or you dont know where they are you will be needing to call up hp and get them to send you restore disks for your laptop they might want up to 30 dollars for them...




My goal is not a full clean copy of windows on your laptop here it is a goal of getting it to boot for you we will take things slowly get one thing fixed at a time...

If you have access to a 2nd pc and can get a legit iso from tech net or microsoft download that and burn to dvd see if you can install from that disk and if it works do a completely clean install deleting all partitions on the drive and formatting it...
 
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Having one drive doesn't mean you only have one partition, or that all of them are were visible in Windows explorer. When installing to a blank drive, Windows 7 will create a 100MB boot partition and make it active. Then install the operating system on another larger partition that you told it to install to. Bootmgr is on the 100MB partition, and if you set the active partition to the other you'll get "bootmgr is missing" messages. That would also happen if there were no partition set as active since its the MBR code that displays the message.

Now if you just installed over a current install, here's no telling where bootmgr went and you'll have to sort out where the system is looking for it during boot vs where it actually is.
 
If I figure out what driver to install and how to do it when it ask for it when I try to install Win7 I could probably get it to work. It says insert Drive drivers, not really sure what it wants and where to find it.
 
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Having one drive doesn't mean you only have one partition, or that all of them are were visible in Windows explorer. When installing to a blank drive, Windows 7 will create a 100MB boot partition and make it active. Then install the operating system on another larger partition that you told it to install to. Bootmgr is on the 100MB partition, and if you set the active partition to the other you'll get "bootmgr is missing" messages. That would also happen if there were no partition set as active since its the MBR code that displays the message.

Now if you just installed over a current install, here's no telling where bootmgr went and you'll have to sort out where the system is looking for it during boot vs where it actually is.
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That and on laptops such as the hp dv5 hp makes an image with 2-3 partitions one partition is about 20 gig and is the recovery partition it the rest is where windows and everything is installed some divide that further by making a data partition asus does this.

Some laptops dont like it when it gets removed they kick and scream like yours is and there are some extra steps you need to take to get it gone. Plain and simple you are going to need to install windows again and this time when it gets to the drive make sure all partitions are deleted and do a full format this time. Windows 7 should not need a driver to install the reason i was telling you to get a newer iso is so you have a sp1 iso to either install from a cd or usb stick...

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebo...pavilion-dv5-1070ew-cd-dvd-driver/td-p/239560 this sounds like the issue you are having my solution is make your windows 7 a usb stick and see if that works...
 
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ok ok, so I deleted 2 of the 3 partition using the diskpart command in the command prompt. The other partition was the DVD/CD rom I believe so I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with that so I left it as is. When I try to install the operating system, it gives me the same error..."A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing....". should I remove the dvd/cd rom partition?
 
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Liux43 said:
ok ok, so I deleted 2 of the 3 partition using the diskpart command in the command prompt. The other partition was the DVD/CD rom I believe so I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with that so I left it as is. When I try to install the operating system, it gives me the same error..."A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing....". should I remove the dvd/cd rom partition?
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you can try but it wont do anything what i found was the dvd drive is not windows 7 compatible what i would try is making a usb stick to use as an install medium. since the dvd drive sucks so bad it should work once you get into windows and can download drivers for it but i donno suposedly the dvd drive itself needs a bios update...
 
Hey! Thanks I got it to install!!! I guess the real problem as my dvd/cd rom drive. I used the usb before, but it gave me an error so I kinda gave up on it. After 5 dvds of ISO I took you guys' suggestion and went back to my USB and it worked flawlessly! And good looking out suggesting I use the latest ISO, it saved me a lot of time updated my windows! Again, thanks for helping me, I finally get to used my laptop again after 5 months of it being dead in the water :).
 
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