Fix “BOOTMGR is missing” Startup Error On Vista

August 15th, 2007 • Filed Under

I don’t know how prevalent the problem is of Vista displaying the error message “BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”, but I wish I’d seen this fix from Cybernet a few weeks ago. The way I temporarily solved the problem was to boot my machine with the Vista DVD inserted EVERY TIME. I decided this was a bad idea as my DVD drive is temperamental and prone to chewing up discs, so I ended up doing a full rebuild as I didn’t want to risk my Vista Disk.

To fix the problem the sensible way, do the following:

  1. Pick your language and continue onto the next screen.
  2. Choose the option in the bottom left corner entitled Repair Your Computer:

  3. Choose the Windows installation you want to repair.
  4. Choose the Startup Repair option and the problem will be solved!

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6 Responses to “Fix “BOOTMGR is missing” Startup Error On Vista”

  1. confused says:
    August 31, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    Does not work. not even option to ‘Fix bootmgr’. Where does that show?

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  2. Thahir says:
    March 26, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    I don’t know how prevalent the problem is of Vista displaying the error message “BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”,
    i am getting the above problems but i have system recovery dvd i am able to recover, but the problem i have many necessary data and documents to save .as i am afraid to do that so could you kindly advice me the right solutiion to maintain the saving and recover it ?

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  3. DJ says:
    May 29, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    Bull

    I have tried repairing it says no errors

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  4. Dani says:
    March 12, 2009 at 8:42 am

    If steps listed above won’t work you can try http://fixexe.com/vista-wont-boot-bootmgr-is-missing/ . It worked for me!

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  5. Dani says:
    July 1, 2009 at 10:47 am

    http://shad.cc/post/2008/02/04/Windows-Vista%3A-BOOTMGR-is-missing

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