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    BOOTMGR missing

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Dragonshway, Jun 9, 2008.

  1. Dragonshway

    Dragonshway Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I was playing around with my 1525 trying to reformat and when I accidently loaded the AHCI driver more than once, both the c: and MediaDirect partitions were gone. When I try to restart the pc it would say "BOOTMGR missing, press ctrl + alt + del..." so I figure I would just reinstall windows, which worked. Now when I try to redo the whole process again with mediadirect, the laptop won't even detect that and it would just load vista, even when I chose to boot from CD/DVD drive. Who can help me?
     
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  2. shinta13

    shinta13 Notebook Geek

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    considering the partition is deleted contact dell & have them send you media direct os then clean install your OS/make a partition for media direct (around 2gb's) & for vista. Install both OS's & everything should work again~
     
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    Ok now I can't even boot from the cd/dvd drive when the vista disk in it...
     
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    So it's a different disk from the one that came with the system?
     
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    AFAIK, you’ll have to reinstall Windows again if you want to have media direct. First partition the disk with Media Direct reinstallation DVD (Not the operating system DVD), then install Vista, afterwards install Media Direct from Vista.
     
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    meh, sorry~

    I haven't received my machine yet & assumed that would be the easiest method. I don't know what DELL sent you & there usually stingy about sending the Vista/XP OS with an order. I suggest using PhoenixFx method :X
     
    shinta13, Jun 9, 2008
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