BootMgr is missing

[dflaws]

When I reImaged the Classmate without the recovery partition as specified on the control system website, after rebooting, the bios finishes and displays "BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". I redownloaded the files and tried again and same problem. The bootmgr file on the image USB is still there. Is anyone else having this problem? How do I fix this?

[Dustin Shadbolt]

I was having the same issue. I just kept re-imaging the PC until it finally worked. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

[dflaws]

Just got it working, thanks for the tip.

[csimon1]

We have been trying to re-image the laptop with the updated files to get more room and still have the "bootmgr missing" error every time. since we only have less then 1G left, we really need this room. Any other ideas out there?

[csimon1]

We finally got it going. Whatwe found out was to exit out ofthe DOS prompt and let the Classmate re-boot itself. All worked when we did this.

[Doc Wu]

Originally Posted by csimon1

We finally got it going. What we found out was to exit out of the DOS prompt and let the Classmate re-boot itself. All worked when we did this.

It would be nice if they told us that! Thanks...

[Mr. Dnp]

Originally Posted by csimon1

We finally got it going. Whatwe found out was to exit out ofthe DOS prompt and let the Classmate re-boot itself. All worked when we did this.

When you say "...exit out ofthe DOS prompt...", how exactly did you do that. I'm getting "BOOTMGR is missing", "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". If I do the Ctl-Alt-Del, I go to my existing bootup, which has that overly large (5GB+) "Recovery Partition".

I'm tempted to try formatting the hard drive, but I'm afraid I may still get this error, and then I won't have anything. At least I have a Win7 (albeit about 40MB disk space remaining?!?!?!)

Thoughts??

[tctc]

Mr. Dnp, are you still getting the BOOTMGR is missing error? I was getting that error for reimaging my team's E09 for the 2014 competition, and the exceptions to the procedures FIRST/WPI provided are

1. Try different USB drives until you find one that works, and
2. Move all of the files from the E09_DRV_2014_030114 directory that RMPrepUSB creates on your USB drive to its root directory, then delete the E09_DRV... directory.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

-Karl

[Mr. Dnp]

Originally Posted by tctc

Mr. Dnp, are you still getting the BOOTMGR is missing error? I was getting that error for reimaging my team's E09 for the 2014 competition, and the exceptions to the procedures FIRST/WPI provided are

1. Try different USB drives until you find one that works, and
2. Move all of the files from the E09_DRV_2014_030114 directory that RMPrepUSB creates on your USB drive to its root directory, then delete the E09_DRV... directory.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

-Karl

I ended up doing 2 things about the same time. I did move the files up to the root and deleted the "E09_DRV... directory"; ALSO I used another Win7 install disk I had and ran the "Repair..." option, which apparently comes up if you boot up with disc available (I used a USB optical drive {DVD/CD RW by LG}. I suspect moving the files to root of boot USB probably did the trick. Should've posted my fix earlier, I'd been corresponding with CTL (Classmate manuf.?) directly via email. BTW, they've been VERY responsive, mostly via their website chat and email.

Now I'm trying to figure out what I can uninstall from the old E09 (some of the NI stuff, like NI-VISA 5.4 maybe?) to free up a bit more drive space so I can install the 2014 driver station software. Better, than it was, but still tight on drive space (15GB drive {SSD I think?}, about 1.3GB remaining!!) after adding the NI stuff following the 2014 re-image.

Thanks for your post though!

[tctc]

Glad you got it working. Not sure about other ways to free up drive space, unfortunately. Sorry 'bout that. Good luck, eh.