{"id":420,"date":"2009-12-05T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/?p=420"},"modified":"2009-12-05T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T09:34:08","slug":"bootmgr-is-missing-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/2009\/12\/05\/bootmgr-is-missing-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"bootmgr is missing windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a freaking big annoyance. If you install windows 7 with more than one harddisk, it will automatically make the 2nd harddisk some kind of backup directory which windows refuses to format. Yeah sure, it&#8217;s a great add in, but really irritating when you decide to plug out that drive. I really wanted to format it and so I fdisked it on an ubuntu iso.<\/p>\n<p>Then when I tried to boot back to windows, I was presented with the alimighty black screen which says bootmgr is missing, press ctrl alt del.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Disconnect all your drives, leave the harddrive with windows 7 intact.<\/li>\n<li>Boot off windows 7 bootdisk, select &#8220;repair your computer&#8221; after selecting time\/date.<\/li>\n<li>You now have 3 possible ways, from easy to most difficult, if the first doesn&#8217;t work, try the second, then the third, if all else fails, re-install.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Option A: Let windows repair the BCD<\/li>\n<li>Option B: Manually rebuild the BCD via recovery console<\/li>\n<li>Option C: Delete offending BCD dir, rebuild BCD manually, make the windows 7 partition the active partition, let windows repair the BCD for you, then reboot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It took me a few hours of my life, and I found the solution here. Considering that a windows 7 installation takes only 15 mins on my comp, I hope this will take you less than 15 mins to fix.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/itprovistasetup\/thread\/e6e2399c-746a-4d45-8b77-dc6e89fd9409<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a freaking big annoyance. If you install windows 7 with more than one harddisk, it will automatically make the 2nd harddisk some kind of backup directory which windows refuses to format. Yeah sure, it&#8217;s a great add in, but really irritating when you decide to plug out that drive. I really wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,21,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}