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OK so i was installing vista from a boot cd that i made and i set my laptop to boot from the cd drive first. Well it got to the part where it said extracting files and stayed at 0% for a while then it got an error and had to shut down.
Before that i had to format the drive so i just formatted all of it and didn't create a partition. Now the bios won't boot from the cd drive because it can't find it, only shows the HDD. What do i do?
nope, just starts up and says bootmgr is missing.
it did show up before, but i guess the bios when back to the old one and it won't show up.
it shows USB CDROM: but that's not it
The BIOS is written into the motherboard, not the hard drive. Even without a hard drive physically inside of the machine, you can still get into the BIOS.
Just hit whatever hotkey is the setup when your computer first turns on (usually something like F2 or Delete) and look for "Boot Options" or something along those lines. Make your CD ROM drive the first thing it boots from. Make your Hard Drive the second.
Op, if you formatted the drive then there isn't anything on the laptop. Bootmgr missing basically means there isn't an OS to boot. What was the error when you were trying to install Vista?
The BIOS is written into the motherboard, not the hard drive. Even without a hard drive physically inside of the machine, you can still get into the BIOS.
Just hit whatever hotkey is the setup when your computer first turns on (usually something like F2 or Delete) and look for "Boot Options" or something along those lines. Make your CD ROM drive the first thing it boots from. Make your Hard Drive the second.
Before that i had to format the drive so i just formatted all of it and didn't create a partition. Now the bios won't boot from the cd drive because it can't find it, only shows the HDD. What do i do?
Disk cloning is the process of copying the contents of one computer hard disk to another disk or to an "image" file (Sometimes referred to as Ghost Imaging). Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step, and the second disk is loaded with the contents of the image. This procedure is also useful when moving to a larger capacity disk.
the bios was messed up beofre the install and wouldn't recognize the cd drive when I had vista. So I redownloaded the bios from the support website and flahed it. Now everything was working all good, buy I still had a crap install of vista on it so I wanted to start new. Did everything like normal and set boot cd first and started off the disks. I chose the partition my current os was on and just clicked format to start new and it got to the install and basically just said" sorry error, must restart" at the second step and it did but now the bios doesn't see the cd drive anymore like before.
So I guess when I reformatted the bios went back to it's crap state and I'm screwed
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