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Windows 7 64 bit Boot Manager is missing

Lord Pantaloons
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My system specs are as follows:

Intel i5 3570k
Asus Sabertooth Z77
16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866mhz
EVGa GTX 660Ti Signature 2 FTW 2GB
OCZ Vertex Plus Optimized Edition 120GB (boot)
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm

 

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I bought another Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive to create a RAID 0 for my games, it was more out of curiosity than any desire for speed. Following the instructions in my motherboard's manual I connected the two 1TB drives to two of the 4 SATA 3gb/s which supports RAID and uses the intel chipset, My SSD Boot drive is connected to one of the two SATA 6gb/s connectors, it also suppots RAID and uses the intel chipset, but seeing as I only had two 6gb/s connectors on my motherboard connecting my boot drive to one of the 3gb/s ports didn't make sense. After installing my new drives and booting to ensure the new 1TB drive works I enabled RAID mode in my BIOS settings and went into the Intel Rapid Storage utility to set up my RAID array. I named the Array "Games RAID 0", selected my two 1TB hard drives and created the new array. I did have data on my original 1TB drive but it was only my Steam data as my OS drive is the OCZ Vertex SSD. However now my PC will not boot as it says that the boot manager is missing. I have tried using the windows repair function but appearently it is incompatible with the version of Windows I have installed (This does not make sense to me). I tried the startup repair and it did not work, I checked to make sure that my SSD is set as the boot device but I still get the "BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". I do not understand how this happened when none of my PC's system files are on the 1TB drive. I am very distressed at this development as I cannot see what I did wrong.

 

Help would be greatly appreciated

 

Thank you,

MrPants

-The Bellerophon- Obsidian 550D-i5-3570k@4.5Ghz -Asus Sabertooth Z77-16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz-x2 EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW 4GB-Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium-OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB-Seagate Barracuda 2TB- https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60154-the-not-really-a-build-log-build-log/ Twofold http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/121043-twofold-a-dual-itx-system/ How great is EVGA? http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/110662-evga-how-great-are-they/#entry1478299

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Have you tried Boot Override?

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

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Have you tried Boot Override?

What is it and how would I go about doing it?

-The Bellerophon- Obsidian 550D-i5-3570k@4.5Ghz -Asus Sabertooth Z77-16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz-x2 EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW 4GB-Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium-OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB-Seagate Barracuda 2TB- https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60154-the-not-really-a-build-log-build-log/ Twofold http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/121043-twofold-a-dual-itx-system/ How great is EVGA? http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/110662-evga-how-great-are-they/#entry1478299

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When you get into the BIOS, you should see an option maybe at the bottom of the screen that says Boot Override. Might also be in the Boot section.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

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When you get into the BIOS, you should see an option maybe at the bottom of the screen that says Boot Override. Might also be in the Boot section.

I tried this and I got the same result.

-The Bellerophon- Obsidian 550D-i5-3570k@4.5Ghz -Asus Sabertooth Z77-16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz-x2 EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW 4GB-Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium-OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB-Seagate Barracuda 2TB- https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60154-the-not-really-a-build-log-build-log/ Twofold http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/121043-twofold-a-dual-itx-system/ How great is EVGA? http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/110662-evga-how-great-are-they/#entry1478299

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Hmmmm...

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

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Hmmmm...

Is it possible that windows installed some vital system files were installed on my 1TB hard drive? I know I've never done it, The only things that I've ever put on the 1TB drive is Steam and any non-steam games. Everything else aside from music and pictures (which I have a separate drive for) was put onto the SSD.

-The Bellerophon- Obsidian 550D-i5-3570k@4.5Ghz -Asus Sabertooth Z77-16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz-x2 EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW 4GB-Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium-OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB-Seagate Barracuda 2TB- https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60154-the-not-really-a-build-log-build-log/ Twofold http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/121043-twofold-a-dual-itx-system/ How great is EVGA? http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/110662-evga-how-great-are-they/#entry1478299

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I think it'd automatically know where the files are. I know I got System Volume Information on my 500GB hard drive(non-OS), while my SSD is my boot drive. Honestly, I don't know what to tell ya.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

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I think it'd automatically know where the files are. I know I got System Volume Information on my 500GB hard drive(non-OS), while my SSD is my boot drive. Honestly, I don't know what to tell ya.

Do you know someone here that might be able to? maybe you could point them my way.

-The Bellerophon- Obsidian 550D-i5-3570k@4.5Ghz -Asus Sabertooth Z77-16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz-x2 EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW 4GB-Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium-OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB-Seagate Barracuda 2TB- https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60154-the-not-really-a-build-log-build-log/ Twofold http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/121043-twofold-a-dual-itx-system/ How great is EVGA? http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/110662-evga-how-great-are-they/#entry1478299

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Currently, no. Perhaps you should try going back to your original config.

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"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

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Currently, no. Perhaps you should try going back to your original config.

I did but with no luck, I even went as far as to disconnect every drive but my SSD

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You got a Win7 disk? Boot off it, enter your language then click on recovery options (or something like that, at the bottom of the "window"). Then launch startup repair and it should solve it. There's also a fix using cmd on the boot CD which I used once, but I'm sure you can find out how to do it by googling. If you don't have the boot CD, I assume you have access to another PC, so download (torrent if you need to) a Win7 recovery disk and either make a bootable USB or burn it to a disk.

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The system repair didn't find any problems, I looked up the repair command prompts and tried them, I ran "BootRec /ScanOS" and it found an installation of windows, then I ran "BootRec /RebuildBcd" and it found the install of windows as asks if I want to add that installation to the boot list, when I say yes though I says "Element not found". What does that mean? hopefully this helps

-The Bellerophon- Obsidian 550D-i5-3570k@4.5Ghz -Asus Sabertooth Z77-16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866Mhz-x2 EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW 4GB-Creative Sound Blaster XF-i Titanium-OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB-Seagate Barracuda 2TB- https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60154-the-not-really-a-build-log-build-log/ Twofold http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/121043-twofold-a-dual-itx-system/ How great is EVGA? http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/110662-evga-how-great-are-they/#entry1478299

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ok i have recovered from a problem like this ... i messed up a linux install and my boot loader was gone 

 

 

i can't recall exactly but i will go look ...bam! i remembered, i used boot repair . this can recover the boot file for a windows partition on the master boot record https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

 

 ok so what you do is install iso on a live usb and boot ... i did a recommended repair but you can read through the tutorial and see what u can do.

 

it's funny, when windows messes up ... linux to the rescue 

(1) high frame rate (2) ultra graphics settings (3) cheap...>> choose only two<<...

 

if it's never been done then i'm probably tryna do it. (((((((Bass so low it HERTZ)))))))

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

you will need this and

 

you would need a usb installer ... i use this one >>>http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

(1) high frame rate (2) ultra graphics settings (3) cheap...>> choose only two<<...

 

if it's never been done then i'm probably tryna do it. (((((((Bass so low it HERTZ)))))))

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I think the problem is that you instaled Windows when your SATA was set to AHCI/IDE...if you set it to RAID after the instalation the Windows will not boot at all... happened to me and I had to reinstal the Windows.

Try to set it to AHCI again and see if you are able to boot ;)

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