Boot MGR missing error

Squall3212

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Feb 18, 2016
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Hi Guys,

Any help with this will be appreciated!

I recently bought a new PC rig, everything is working fine after initial test of new hardware, so no issues to report.

To give you a bit of background, i have a copy of Windows 7 but its saved as an image on the spare HDD. I have a windows 7 home premium prod ID key, its not pirated.

However i did install my old copy of Vista ultimate i had laying around (32bit) because i completely forgot i had the windows 7 64bit ISO on my spare HDD (used it before as a bootable disk instead of using a DVD). Once vista installed it wouldn't recognize anything, even my driver disk for the new Motherboard wouldn't even load.

So i proceeded to make the secondary HDD bootable but Vista ultimate 32bit, wouldn't recognize the bootsect.exe or the command to make it a bootable disk (/NT60). So i read online about swapping out the 64bit bootsect.exe with the 32bit one (from any build) and it should work.
It did work ok, but now anytime that i format the main SSD it wont boot by itself, will only boot with the secondary hard-drive acting as a windows install disk.

Now the error i get is bootMGR missing, I have looked everywhere to try even repairing the boot sector rebuilding it and even going as far as reinstalling with nothing connected. nothing works. all the commands hit a brick wall after a while because the windows install is technically not a disk.

I can think of only two possible ways to fix this:

1: download a bootsect.exe 64bit from online (from a windows 7 home premium build) to put it and properly install (fingers crossed)

2: Put the windows installation on a disk and just install it this way and hope it works.

I wasn't able to backup anything and have lost all my games.. they can be re-downloaded again.. (my save games.. :( ).

Any help guys it would be really appreciated.