Vista - bootmgr missing

Last night I downloaded some software installed it then turned off my laptop.
this morning all I can get is 'BOOTMGR is missing press Ctrl+Alt+Del to
restart'. I'm only running vista on my laptop and dont get a backup disk with
the laptop. what can I do?

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Ian

"squibby" <squibby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3E51447A-EC6F-44C6-93FC-6E5E4066D93B@microsoft.com...
> Last night I downloaded some software installed it then turned off my
> laptop.
> this morning all I can get is 'BOOTMGR is missing press Ctrl+Alt+Del to
> restart'. I'm only running vista on my laptop and dont get a backup disk
> with
> the laptop. what can I do?
>

You did not say what you downloaded. You sound as if you have an attack on
you boot manger from a virus. If it starts run your virus protector.

I downloaded some real player software to enable me to play different media
formats and real games software. At the moment I can't get past the bootmgr
is missing mesage I have checked in setup and my hard drive is at the top of
the boot list as other people have had a problem with the computer trying to
boot from the wrong drive in set up. I don,t have a vista repair disk as my
laptop came preloaded with vista. I have made a backup of my computer noto my
usb hard drive, would I be able to boot from this external hard drive?

"Ian Betts" wrote:

>
>
> --
> Ian
>
> "squibby" <squibby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3E51447A-EC6F-44C6-93FC-6E5E4066D93B@microsoft.com...
> > Last night I downloaded some software installed it then turned off my
> > laptop.
> > this morning all I can get is 'BOOTMGR is missing press Ctrl+Alt+Del to
> > restart'. I'm only running vista on my laptop and dont get a backup disk
> > with
> > the laptop. what can I do?
> >
>
> You did not say what you downloaded. You sound as if you have an attack on
> you boot manger from a virus. If it starts run your virus protector.
>

hi there,
im having exactly the same problem. i have a back up disk but it still says
the same thing when i install it. i hope someone can help, if you have
managed to sort your laptop out please can you let me no how you did it.

many thanks

"squibby" wrote:

Well all I did was run Disk Cleanup, rebooted and bam, missing bootmgr. I
also have an OEM copy and no disk and I think the partition with the install
system is gone. When I use another install disk and run repair it doesn't fix
the problem.

I tried command prompt and can read the contents of C drive which is all
there, but there has got to be a way to access it that isn't apparent from
any of the answers I have read here.

"pinkladyjay" wrote: