BOOTMGR image corrupt

[Alan M. Goldfarb]

What started as one of the game programs on my drive crashing turned into
this. "BOOTMGR image corrupt: system cannot boot."

Fiddling around with the Vista CD's Repair Utilities and Acronis Disk
Director, I was able to run CHKDSK on the drive. After going through the
Verifying Files Stage where it says it is fixing a large number of files, it
arrives at stage 2, Verifying Indexes, and at that point it says "Unspecified
Error Occurred" and stops. With Acronis I am able to locate data folders and
files on the drive, but cannot transfer them to either of my other two hard
drives. Acronis Recovery Expert says it cannot find any unallocated space on
the drive, even though the drive's data is only about 25 to 35% of the
drive's capacity. I still cannot boot from the drive, and if I try to access
it in My Computer, I get, "E:\ is not accessible: Access is Denied." Also in
my computer, under the drive's volume name there is no gauge bar to show how
much of the drive's capacity is occupied by data, like with my other two
drives.

Does anyone have any ideas? Can anyone assist?

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Sounds like the drive is dying, a diagnostic tool from the manufacturer
would confirm that. Don't run chkdsk at this point, concentrate on data
recovery first. It may be a good idea to image the drive prior to doing
anything else, this may help you preserve data that might otherwise be lost.

If Acronis' tool is looking for unallocated space, then it is referring to
unpartitioned space on the drive, not space available within a volume on the
drive. You would need to shrink an existing volume on the target drive to
create the needed space.

[Mick Murphy]

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Alan, make a bootable Live CD from the above link.
It is an ISO file you will download.

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Above is software to make the CD.

Once made, boot with it.
It uses your RAM and Motherboard; it does not install.
It should show your Data; copy it to flash Drive.
Remove read only properties from FD

Cheers.

[Brink]

Hello Alan,

I would recommend running Startup Repair on that drive to see if that
can fix the BOOTMGR (MBR) for you. This tutorial will help show you how
to if needed.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91...up-repair.html

Hope this helps,

[Alan M. Goldfarb]

Hi Shawn, I did try this and it didn't work. At least, it didn't get my drive
bootable again.

[Alan M. Goldfarb]

Also the page you linked had a download to a program that said it would not
support 64-bit OS software, which is what I have. Therefore the installation
announced it would forcibly abort itself.

[Brink]

Alan, not sure which link
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/14...very-disc.html ??)
you are referring to, but did you download the 64 bit version from the
link?