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A friend gave me a Compaq Presario C700 to fix. He had been attempting to reload the Vista OS and ran into trouble. At this point when I boot from the disk recovery partition I get “boot manager is missing”, ctrl/alt/del to restart. If I boot from the recovery DVD, during the “reformatting the windows partition”, I get error 0x4001001300001002.
I have followed various methods to fix/repair/recreate the MBR, there is a very good writeup on Neosmart.net site, but they ultimately fail since there is no OS on the drive. The format portion of the reload apparently worked OK… I also tried the MBR fix on the Wondershare liveboot CD I have.
Is it possible to save this drive? Or do I just need him to buy another one?

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Compaq was acquired by HP back in 2001 if my memory serves me correctly, so I checked their site and sure enough, the error you mentioned is documented here: HP forum suggestions to fix error 0x4001001300001002

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That link seems to follow the path of a user with no problems, even though she posted the same problem I am having. The last suggestion was to download and use recovery disks. I have already used recovery disks. Any other helpers?

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“boot manager is missing”,

wcdubois,
Hello…. You could try to enter “Boot Menu”, “Esc” or ” F-10″, when the PC is Posting ( Power On Self Test) Varies with each manufacturer Once in… locate the Drive or Partition ( use Up Down Arrows) and select your OS and hit enter ….sometimes this will boot up the OS ( have done this myself at times).. If this works for you post back and we can figure a way to correct it…:cheers: Regards Fred

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Boot Menu is F9 on this PC. If I select the old boot partition I get “BOOTMGR is missing”.
Like I origonally posted, the OS is no longer on this disk.
How do I reinstall/recover the boot manager?

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Boot Menu is F9 on this PC. If I select the old boot partition I get “BOOTMGR is missing”.
Like I origonally posted, the OS is no longer on this disk.
How do I reinstall/recover the boot manager?

Hello… I’m confused … If there is “no OS on the disk” how are you expecting to boot it, even if there was a Boot manager? Regards Fred

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I’m not trying to boot the OS, trying to reinstall it!
Please go back and read my first post.
Can someone assist me?

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I’m not trying to boot the OS, trying to reinstall it!
Please go back and read my first post.
Can someone assist me?

Hello… OK… I’m trying to understand … If your trying to do a install from a Recovery partition …you don’t need a Boot manager …you need to hit on my OS F-11 to do a system restore , from your recovery partition … or recovery from a repair disk, using the recovery partition .. I apologize for my confusion….Regards Fred

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No need to be rude. We are all volunteers trying to help.

See if this article helps. There are several possibilities. It appears that possibly #5 will help.

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OK, I go to step 6 “rebuild the BCD”, on step 5 of that procedure “bcdedit /export c:bcdbackup” the result I get is “the store export operation has failed” “the system cannot find the file specified”
Help me understand what I need to do now…

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My apologies if I sounded rude, I did not mean to be.

The article points out some good tips. I have already been down the path of step 5 at the excellent Neosmart site: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/new-partition-boot-sector-windows.htm

I will sure try it again.

It looks to me like step 6 holds some promise as it discusses not finding the OS.

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To be honest, a quick tour of the HP support forums suggests to me that the drive is beyond repair. All those errors even trying to install a new OS version would lead me to the same conclusion. No write operations seem to succeed, whatever the app you use to do it.

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Thanks ruirib, I suspect yoiu are correct.

Just Plain Fred, I am only reporting on what I am seeing. I don’t understand it either and that is why I posted here, to see what other techs think. Honestly, if I try to reinstall the OS from the recovery partition on the disk I get “Boot Manager is Missing”. If I attempt to install from the recovery DVD I get an error code 0x4001001300001002, which as near as I can find indicates registry corruption. The drive (boot partition) is formatted and there is nothing in the boot partition.

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if I try to reinstall the OS from the recovery partition on the disk I get “Boot Manager is Missing”.

wcdubois,
Hello… Did you try to use the recovery partition as i suggested, by entering (some F# ) at post time?
Regards Fred

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Thanks ruirib, I suspect yoiu are correct.

I am sorry if it turns out to be like that. Personally I think I wouldn’t really risk to save my data to a disk that behaves as you have been describing, even if you get past those initial hurdles.
One other aspect to consider, is your time. Quite certainly, the whole episode has cost you more in time and effort than it would cost your friend to buy a new hard drive and the worst part of it is that it doesn’t seem to have got your closer to a working solution :(.

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F11, yes I have tried it multiple times. The result is “Boot Manager is Missing”!

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wcdubios,
Hello…. This is a really “Out there” …but i would try it if was all i had .

1. On another PC Download and Install Macrium Reflect (Free)

2. Burn the WinPE ( WAIK) CD

3. On your problem PC Make sure that it’s set to boot from a CD ( 1st in boot order) Load WinPE Disk on problem PC

4. Image the Recovery partition, and store it on an “External”

5. Using a 3rd party Disk manager ..( like G parted Free) wipe the whole disk , format NTSF.

6. Load WinPE Disk and try to Recover the Image from the external to the Clean Disk…

If the recovery partition is intact it might work… Good luck:cheers: Regards Fred

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Hi
I got your problem, you lost your windows partition:(. Don’t worry, you can recover them:cool:. Instead of scratching your with all those boot manager and all, just use the recovery software which can help you to recover your data. There is one such software called Windows Partition Recovery Software, that can easily recover missing partition vista, even Windows XP, Windows 7, all versions of Windows.It can even recover data from crashed hard drives and allows you to save the recovered files on External drives including CDs / DVDs. You can even evaluate the ability of this software using the trial version and them you can purchase the tool.:cool:

All the Best,:)

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If nothing else, that would enable me to put the recovery partition onto a “new” disk.
Seems like that is where I am headed.

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Reason why “BOOTMGR is Missing” error occurs is outlined here:
http://www.prime-expert.com/articles/b15/fix-bootmgr-is-missing.php
Article linked above also explains in detail how to fix it using Emergency Boot CD.
This tool can fix various boot problems related to boot records, BCD and mount points in registry.

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I would also try F10, F12, Ctrl F10, Ctrl F11 and Ctrl F12. Different manufacturers often use different keys or key combinations but usually its one of those six.
Also with XP, I’ve always had great luck using a GParted (partition manager) from a Parted Magic boot disc to set the boot flag to the recovery partition, exit and reboot and the system automatically boots into the recovery partition and initiates recovery without any key combo. I don’t know if that works with Vista though (never tried it).

A third option may also be possible and is as follows, excerpted from a post on another forum:

And all thanks to Kubuntu.
This is what I did:

Got me favorite Kubuntu 7.04 CD, started de laptop, then, at the Kubuntu Intsalation screen, hit F6 to add one more command at the end of the command line — noapic
When Kubuntu started, I installed it with minimal space:

Left all this huge NTFS space free (hda0) — Got a 3GB partition for root here (“/”, ext3 format) (hda2) — Got a 900MB partition for SWAP here (hda3) — Left this 6GB Vista Recovery partition here (hda1)

After less than 10 minutes, Kubuntu was installed, and as soon as GRUB screen appeared, it showed something like this:

– Kubuntu
– Kubuntu Recovery Mode
– Windos XP
– Vista Recovery

Select Vista Recovery to start, then you will get to the Recovery mode, and select the recovery option that formats the laptop just as it was from the factory.
Then, you have your laptop back with Vista.

If none of that works, it would perhaps be time to admit defeat. :;):

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