BOOTMGR is mission
I have a SSD 64 GB Windows 7 which I image and recovered in a 100 GB partition on a 1TB Hard Drive and it said BOOYMGR is missing when I tried to boot it. How can I correct this?
I suspect that you created a backup image of just your OS partition, which was unwise. Your drive likely had at least one hidden partition that contained the boot files.
When you have a 1TB drive with 100GB for the OS and 900GB for your data, I bought Acronis to backup and recovery the OS only.
If you run the System Repair Disc, it may be able to fix it. Other MVPs here have more experience with System Repair Disc, so they may comment further.
The So called System Repair Disc is the same as the Windows 7 OS disk
In future, create full disk Backups (selecting the disk, not just partitions). A full disk Backup is the best, most reliable method of recovery.
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I've been using this for years and I have 8 Hard Drives with all my data so Using Acronis to back up data that is in 8 Hard Drive is redundant. The Program was design to recover the Operating system
However I did manage to image the entire drive and recover it on a complete drive with the missing Bootmgr so I put in my OS disk and fix the problem.
There is a lot I have to learn about this backup program like how not to get the BSOD and I'm still working on that one. Thank you for your post and any info is welcome.
Any time you restore an Operating system to a new drive with partitions already created on it, you could possibly not have the boot infomation in the correct location for Windows to boot properly. In addition, if the installtion of Windows 7 has the "system Reserved" partition, as well as an "OS" partition, both would have to be restored in the same order and layout as the original disk. System manufactures can also have addtional partitions on a disk that can cause bootability issues as well, when restoring, if they are also not inculded as part of the restore (once again in the correct order on the disk).
Any time you restore an Operating system to a new drive with partitions already created on it
So should I take the 1TB drive and delete the partitions in Disk manager? Then when I recover can I make the 100 GB partition then because I need the other 900 GB for data. This is something I haven't done before so I just need to recover my OS on another drive on a 100 GB partition so can you tell me how to do this?
If you do not have any info that you need to save on the 1TB drive, you can delete the partitions in disk manager, or you can use the "add a new disk" tool in Acronis to wipe the drive clean and start over. When restoring the backup image of your Windows installatrion, you can choose how large to make the partitions during restore. If you, for example, have a Windows 7 System Reserved partition, and an OS partition, you can restore the System Revered partion as is, and then restore the OS partition using as much of the space remaining on the drive as your want. After the restore, the remaining space can be allocated as you wish with the Windows disk management tools. If your system does not have the Windows 7 System Reserved" partion, you would just restore the "OS" partion adjusting the size of it to fit your needs.
If you do not have any info that you need to save on the 1TB drive, you can delete the partitions in disk manager, or you can use the "add a new disk" tool in Acronis to wipe the drive clean and start over. When restoring the backup image of your Windows installatrion, you can choose how large to make the partitions during restore. If you, for example, have a Windows 7 System Reserved partition, and an OS partition, you can restore the System Revered partion as is, and then restore the OS partition using as much of the space remaining on the drive as your want. After the restore, the remaining space can be allocated as you wish with the Windows disk management tools. If your system does not have the Windows 7 System Reserved" partion, you would just restore the "OS" partion adjusting the size of it to fit your needs.
I'll save this post for referance, hower this is what I did:
I took my Windows 7 OS disk and did a repair two or three times so it could to get the BOOTMGR and NTLDR back and I just hope it's on my C drive? So now it works and I still have all my data. The System Revered partion and the OS should be image together according to want happen when I did a recovery?
On your working system, you can open Windows disk management and display your hard disk partitions. If you have a System Reserved partition, it will normally not be assigned a drive letter, and will be in front of your OS partition. If is not necessary in all cases for it to exist for proper boot.
If you now have a System Reserved partition, to do a complete backup, you would need to include it, and the OS partition for restore to a new drive or recovery to the existing drive.
No, the boot files may not be on your C: drive (or C: partition - your posts are rather unclear about this - I think you have partitions, but you say you have 8 hard drives).
Check in Disk Management to see what partition is the boot partition. In Windows 7, it is often not the C: (OS) partition.
You can make backups without all partitions, but as you don't really know what you're doing you risk that a restore results in an unbootable system, as you discovered. At the very least, you need the OS partition and any required hidden partitions (especially the one with boot files) to be backed up and restored.
It's also possible to move the boot files to the OS partition, if you have need of that, but a proper procedure must be followed (you can't just drag and drop).
No, the boot files may not be on your C: drive (or C: partition - your posts are rather unclear about this - I think you have partitions, but you say you have 8 hard drives).
I have 8 hard drives with different OS's and each Hard drive has a partiton for data and all data is the same for redundance.Check in Disk Management to see what partition is the boot partition. In Windows 7, it is often not the C: (OS) partition.
My OS's is always on my C driveYou can make backups without all partitions, but as you don't really know what you're doing you risk that a restore results in an unbootable system, as you discovered. At the very least, you need the OS partition and any required hidden partitions (especially the one with boot files) to be backed up and restored.
I only image my OS partiton becasue making data images with Acronis is silly.It's also possible to move the boot files to the OS partition, if you have need of that, but a proper procedure must be followed (you can't just drag and drop).
Can you tell me the proper procedure or a link to it in case I need to?
I hesitate to do so, when you have not yet even examined Disk Management to understand the current layout, and don't really know what you're doing.
I hesitate to do so, when you have not yet even examined Disk Management to understand the current layout, and don't really know what you're doing.
Of course I've looked at Disk Management. Why would you say such a thing?
We're not mind readers. If you don't post information, we can't know what you've done. You never reported back on your current disk structure, and didn't even clarify the issue of whether you have multiple partitions or multiple physical hard drives. When we pose questions or ask for clarification, answers are required in order for us to provide help.
I apologize for not being as clear as I should be. I guess as a senior citizen I don’t explain myself as well as I should. In Disk Management I have “System Reserved 100 MB in one partition and then in another one I have 59.53 GB which is a SSD drive with NTFS. I image this a month ago into an External drive and recovered it today in a 1TB Hard Drive with a 100 GB and 900 GB partition from the external drive holding my images for a total of 3 Hard Drives to complete this recovery. I imaged into the 100 GB partition. I had to use my Windows 7 OS disk in order to get my BOOTMGR and NT loader back. It does work. My question is could something got transferred over to my 1TB Hard Drive 2nd partition? I also believe this is not the right way to do it so I do need help on this.
Richard,
I'm sure that you are right in that you are having trouble trying to get us to understand what you are trying to accomplish and what you are looking for in the forum.
To clear some things up, lets start with some basic questions and statements about what you are doing and what you wish to accomplish.
You say that you have 8 hard drives, at least one of them being an SSD.
You have backed up the SSD and have restored it to a 100GB partition on a 1TB standard disk.
My questions are these.
Did you remove the SSD and replace it with the 1TB drive as the primary active system drive containing your operating system?
Is the SSD still in the system?
Why did you do this?
Did the SSD originally have a System Reserved partition?
What drive now has the System Reserved Partition you mentioned in your last post?
Is the System Reserved partition on the same drive as your Windows installation (OS partition)?
What type of answer are you looking for?
James
Richard,
If you could post a screen capture of your Windows disk management screen from your computer as it is now, would be of great help.
Richard,
Here are a link which might help from one aging senior citizen to another senior citizen.
Particularly items 1, 2 and 3.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
Sometimes the best success is just to start over.
If you are trying to make the 1TB disk to be a new bootable replacement,
then item 1 on the link would be best and the 1TB should be the only disk that Windows is allowed to see on first boot after the restore.
Yes, a screen capture from Windows Disk Management would help us to "see" what you see.
Thank you I have book mark the link and I am going to educate myself on the backups because I'm building a 5th computer tomorrow so I'm going to be needing it.
James, thank you for your help but I think I've got everything under control. My SSD drive needed a firm upgrade which took me 10 minutes to do but the 10 hours of trouble shooting was educational and kept me busy. With so many computer I don't really get stress out much knowing I have all the time in the world to fix my computer problems. Like playing pool, lean how to relax after 10 hours of playing and make you 1000th shot as relaxing as your first.
Thanks
Richard,
Any time you need some more help, or have questions, come on back and jump in again.
James