BOOTMGR is missing after fresh install and new partition

dhurda471

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Hello.

I've recently been having problems with my SSD. I bought a new case and transferred everything from my old PC over. I have one HDD and one SSD, and use the SSD as the boot drive and the HDD as storage. When I turned on the computer after moving everything over to the new case, my SSD wouldn't boot. So, I booted from the HDD, quick-formatted the SSD, created a new partition on it, reinstalled Windows onto it, and tried booting it again. However, when I booted up from the SSD, which I configured it BIOS, it gave me the message "BOOTMGR is missing. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart."

What's strange is that I was just running windows off of the SSD before and can access the SSD's files through Windows Explorer if I boot through the HDD, but something isn't letting me properly boot from it.

Please help? Thanks in advance!
 
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Unplug your hdd leave the SSD
Start her up
open command prompt
Type the following:
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
bootrec /rebuildbcd

At this stage if it doesn't find your windows installation and ask you if you want to add it, then you will have to reinstall from scratch.
When you installed Windows on your SSD, did you have the HDD plugged into the motherboard? If so, then files needed for boot are on your HDD instead of your SSD. You need to install windows with JUST the SSD plugged in. Hope this helps.

PS: I had to do this once myself, lol.
 

dhurda471

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Luco, could you help me with the bootrec thing? I looked towards the bottom where it says how to fix Bootmgr, and I got a little confused because I'm dumb lol. What exactly do I need to do? I tried entering it in as it said (probably wrong) and the problem hadn't been fixed.
 


Unplug your hdd leave the SSD
Start her up
open command prompt
Type the following:
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
bootrec /rebuildbcd

At this stage if it doesn't find your windows installation and ask you if you want to add it, then you will have to reinstall from scratch.
 
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