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    How to Restore BootMGR files ???

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by milunes, Jan 26, 2008.

  1. milunes

    milunes Notebook Enthusiast

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    Had the same problem a few days ago. Fortunately, my old desktop still has a floppy drive. Made a bootable CD from the floppy and restored the partition.

    Unfortunately I don't have the image I made here with me. I'll post it tomorrow. But hopefully someone has another solution, so that you don't have to wait so much time..

    Edit: I assume you haven't deleted the RnR partition...
     
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    I think I still have the hidden partition, unless the Linux installation messed it up for me :( .

    Thanks arlab i'll be waiting for the ISO.
     
    milunes, Jan 26, 2008
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    arlab Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry for taking so long. Here it is:

    http://rapidshare.com/files/87343153/rnr40_rrd_fixed.iso.html

    It won't last long though (Rapidshare). If someone could upload it to a personal server or something would be great.

    Anyway, this is the Windows Vista repair diskette... don't know if that was the one you were looking for.
     
    arlab, Jan 28, 2008
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    arlab,

    thanks for posting the iso. this could be very useful....I wonder if this iso will work with XP? Or, is another iso available by xp o/s?

    thanks again
     
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    Only for Vista. Windows XP and 2000 have a different repair diskette.
    I'm writing a quick post, so that other people with the same problem can find it. I'll make a ISO of the XP and 2000 diskette also for it to be more complete.
     
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    Thanks for the ISO arlab :D, so I burned the image to a DVD, set my BIOS to look the DVD drive first, and after that my screen says Abort, Retry, Fail?

    I've tried running repair.exe, still when I want to use RnR it still says BOOTMGR missing :(.

    Am I missing something?
     
    milunes, Jan 28, 2008
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    You shound be able to it via you vista disk if you got acess to startup repair on vista disk you can do the command bootrec /?

    or you cd use the startu repair or bcdedit
     
    andyasselin, Jan 29, 2008
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    milunes Notebook Enthusiast

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    Whoopsy... I miss the guide arlab made :D

    I've done it already, and it doesn't work. I think it need the thinkpad BOOTMGR.
     
    milunes, Jan 29, 2008
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    does it get missing bootmsg load errror?

    or just not boot

    they also bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot just like xp
     
    andyasselin, Jan 29, 2008
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    nope.. I can boot to vista just fine, it says `BOOTMGR is missing` only when I want to use the ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery,(Press the thinkvantage and then F11.)
     
    milunes, Jan 29, 2008
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