[vinsanity32]

I have an Acer computer. For some reason i get this message everytime i try and load up my computer. I recently moved some files to my D drive. And since i did that i get this message. When I I load up my Vista dis, I cant really do anything, it doesnt recognize that i have Windows files, And it cant find any drivers. So i cant re-download Vista or anything. Any idea what i should do?

[donkat]

What files did you move?

[wiley8425]

So Startup Repair from your Vista DVD doesn't work at all?

Repair "BOOTMGR is missing" error

specifically:

While for a simple issue this is good enough, this will not solve the hard Vista boot issues.

What will happen to people with two hard drives is that they will install vista on one hard drive and the other one may sit empty. However, what they don't know is that Vista installed the boot parameters on the "empty hard drive" since it was drive (0)(0).

If that drive is removed, Vista will not boot. Moreover, the Vista CD's Fix boot will not do anything to solve that problem.

In that case, the person needs to find another installed copy of Vista. They need to copy the hidden boot folder on the root of the main drive (the 0,0 drive) along with the bootmgr file to a USB drive. They need to do this when Vista is not loaded, otherwise the BCD file will not move (which is the essential part). My suggestion is to use the xcopy /h command in a command prompt (which is one of the fixing features in the Vista install disk).

From there, merely use xcopy /h to put the boot folder and bootmgr back onto the main hard drive and Vista should boot up normally.

This was a pain to figure out after I removed my other hard drive and killed my computer for a week.