BOOTMGR is missing

Hi,

I've searched through the forum, but I can't seem to find the answer I need (or one I can understand....),so I need to pick your brains -my friend has a Hi-Grade Notino ML100 Netbook, and as of this morning when you turn it on, you are met with the following message:

"BOOTMGR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

Restarting just takes it back to this screen. I understand that putting in a XP recovery disc would allow me to fix it, but it doesn't have a CD drive...

So, I thought there might be a way to download the appropriate files from somewhere onto a USB stick? Does anyone know if this is possible?

I would be grateful for any input, thanks.

Incase the machine is able to boot from USB then just try to plugin an external CDRom from the repair console and you can try the command - fixboot.

Hi,

thanks for the response - because it doesn't have a CD drive, it didn't come with a disk (besides neither him or I have an external cd drive).

I believe they are supposed to supply you with a way to reset the system - it says press F7 to recover. If you do that it Loads "Hi-Grade Recovery", and gices you two options.

1) "Safely Reboot" - this just reboots and takes me back to the same problem

2) "Restore Backup" - This opens up a black script window which says the following:

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Finding SOURCE drive
Finding DESTINATION drive

*** THE INSTALLATION DRIVE DESTINATION WAS NOT DETECTED ***

Press any key to continue...

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If I press something, then the following is displayed -
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This operation will destroy all the data on your C: drive
press Control-C to cancel <hold hown control key and press the C key at the same time>
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Press any key to continue...
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Does anyone know what will happen if I continue? Does this delete windows .etc, or does it just in effect perform a factory reset?

Thanks

It looks to me that the boot drive or the ntfs crashed. You can try to connect an external cd/dvd drive to the usb port and then check if the bios allows you to boot through usb. If you can then you have the chance to solve the issue.