Boot manager is missing in windows 2008

I marked the C drive as Active Partition and did this to myself You're instructios were what lead me to get my new server back up and running again.

As you rightly pointed out, it saves much more time to try "StartRep. Oh, boy, I can tell you that did the trick!! It's a shame because I am currently pursuing the Windows Server certificate and there is no mention of that command. The problem was that this partition did not mount with the OS. When the OS came back up I typed bcdedit and saw all the information in the store. I got this fix from the following article:. I really don't see the point in popping in the windows 7 CD.

There is a repair settings on the Windows R2 CD. Head to:. This runs a repair, you may have to do it more than once. That's about as easy as it gets. No need for a bunch of other CDs. Tell me what you think. Here's my post about it at my site:. Many, many thanks George. Your method also works for Server x Two things differed from what you specified:.

Rather than not finding any issues on the last boot with the Windows 7 x86 DVD, the recovery tool crashed and informed me that it could not fix the drive. This turned to be quite frightening until I attempted to reboot the server and it came back to life.

I figured it couldn't hurt. Hi trey Alter days of trials I succeed to boot after applying imagex on a partition I found the solution and I decided to share it with people who have the same issue I provided it as a youtube video for the sick of simplicity here is a link.

Thank you. The essence of problem is system can't see driver where initially was installed boot system or bootmgr so it says it missing and it is necessary to activate. My problem is when I give command select disk it doesn't display me MB recovery disk or other except X. I need to overcome it , do you have any suggestions except startRep? I ve got to recover win server r2 on dell r powerEdge which has external 4 integrated disk which one of them activated accidentally I guess.

So I need to reactivate one which hold bootmgr. Boot off of the DVD. When you first start your computer, the first screen you see should give you the key combination to press to enter a 'multi-boot' menu. On Dell's this key is F12 but it varries by each manufacturer. Type X: with colon and press enter 5. Then type del pending. Restart your computer. Thats works for me! It works like a charm. And you don't need to rename the BCD it still working. I had this problem when I restore my server from Symantec.

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Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. I have tried putting the dvd in and then running the recovery console via the command prompt. How do I fix this I have no windows restore point? It is a Virtual machine and the only snapshot is with windows is open, but when restarted it still has the issue.

Is there a way to solve the issue from inside windows itself? Wednesday, October 21, PM. Friday, October 23, AM. Thanks this works!!! Friday, November 13, PM. Thanks guys for your help It worked!!!!!

Monday, January 4, AM. Thank you so much. Worked for me. Tuesday, May 11, PM. What worked for me to fix it was: 1. Sunday, May 16, PM. Hey Guys Thursday, June 10, PM. I belive we ran into the same thing and would like to pinpoint the cause. Wednesday, June 16, PM. Genius - my bacon saved thanks JPorche! Tuesday, July 6, PM. Thanks, George ur the man! Thursday, July 8, PM. Lucas Moreno. Tuesday, July 13, AM. Sunday, September 5, AM. Wednesday, November 3, PM.

Friday, November 5, AM. This worked for me. Many thanks. Tuesday, November 23, PM. Thursday, December 23, PM. Hi, Ran into the same problem and tried all the "recommended" fixes. After doing a bunch of testing and reading put a combination of suggestions together and this is what worked for me. You will need a Windows 7 x64 DVD. Command Prompt Note: I only had one drive and that drive was set for C: as the boot so the setup was fairly basic Restart your computer 7. Boot from the DVD and do a repair.

It will offer to repair automatically accept. Reboot and this is the "trick" boot the DVD again and do a repair.

Keep doing this process until it does not find anything wrong. Your server should boot again. Good luck. George George This helped me greatly. I don't even know what happened. All I did was reboot from a windows update. Monday, January 10, AM.

If your computer has more than one operating system, use the arrow keys to highlight the operating system that you want to repair, and then press and hold F8.

On the Advanced Boot Options screen, use the arrow keys to highlight Repair your computer, and then press Enter. If Repair your computer isn't listed as an option, then your computer doesn't include preinstalled recovery options, or your network administrator has turned them off.

Startup Repair might prompt you to make choices as it tries to fix the problem and, if it is necessary, it might restart your computer as it makes repairs. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Solution 1. Disconnect all external devices Solution 2.

Check the first boot device Solution 3. Repair Boot Sector Solution 5. Rebuild MBR Solution 6. Disconnect all external devices Disconnect the external storage device, like USB flash drive, floppy disk or external hard drive, etc. Solution 2. Solution 3. Solution 4. Solution 5. Still Need Help? Have your problem been solved? If not, please input query in the search box below.