my sisters pc is saying boot manager not found , hard drive is wiped too tried installing win 7 and linux wont load says boot manager not found tried repair on win7 no good , its an old machine pentium4 told her to bin it but cash is a bit tight any fix ??
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14th March, 2011, 03:05 PM #1The Stig PT
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old pc boot manager gone
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Ok couple of things to try.
1st of is boot sequence in bios.
2nd hdd priority in bios
3rd if your doing a full format, then i would set boot priority to 1st cd/dvd and select correct drive. You also want to delete all partitions on the hdd.
Ensure hdd is seen in bios.
Boot into setup of windows/linux and check its seen again, format it and let it instal. If you get the same error once rebooted, its your boot sequence.
TBH i would be thinking of installing windows xp on a P4 setup.
Run repair console from xp cd and use command fixmbr to repair master boot recordLast edited by cunny; 14th March, 2011 at 07:30 PM.
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14th March, 2011, 08:06 PM #3The Stig PT
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THANK YOU CUNNY YOU ARE GREAT
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Thanks Stig
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THANK YOU CUNNY YOU ARE GREAT
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