

To fix BOOTMGR's missing errors in Windows 7/8/10/11, we’ll provide various solutions to help you out. You can try them one by one until the error message disappear and the system starts successfully. The boot sector or MBR on your system may be damaged or missing.ģ. You are trying to boot the computer from the external USB flash drive and there is no BOOTMGR file on that device.Ģ. So, what may cause such boot error messages? There are several reasons listed below for these BOOTMGR errors:ġ. What should I do? Any help would be appreciated.”īesides, there are some similar error messages like “Couldn’t find BOOTMGR”, and “BOOTMGR is missing press any key to restart”. An error message displayed ‘BOOTMGR is missing press Crl+Alt+Del to restart’ instead, I have no idea what happened I just installed some widgets on my desktop yesterday.

We found that many many users look for help in the forums like that “Today I turn up my Sony laptop and try to boot from Windows 7, but it’s failed. In addition, you should be aware that the BOOTMGR file is read-only, and cannot be modified. In most cases, the BOOTMGR file is located on the System Reserved partition, if you don’t have a System Reserved partition, the file must be located on your system partition typically the C drive. It was first introduced in Windows Vista to replace the NTLDR boot manager in previous versions of Windows like Windows XP. The BOOTMGR can read the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) and execute the winload.exe, then the winload.exe will load the essential drivers to help your system start. I have a new post about doing this using EasyBCD.BOOTMGR is a file named Windows Boot Manager. Please see this post about how I fixed the problem. The error I got is different, but it’s similar in nature. I have tried to reproduce the error and fix it. Some readers have reported that they still have problems after following these steps.


Type the following to set the device to where Windows XP is installed.Type the following to create a boot loader for Windows XP.You do this when you cannot boot to Windows XP after installing Windows 7 or Windows Vista. A reader has asked about how to add Windows XP to Windows 7 Boot Manager.
