Alienware laptop BOOTMGR is missing?

[kyleQuinn]

Hello I have an alienware laptop, recently everytime i boot up my computer it says "BOOTMGR is missing, Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart, however when i do this it restarts then comes back to the same message.

What do I do?

 

P.S. I don't have any disks for the laptop.

[KenB]

Hi kyle and welcome to ExTS

 

If you have no disks then I suggest the following:

 

Take the hard drive out of the machine.

This is usually located underneath one of the panels at the base of the machine.

 

You will need to buy a hard drive to USB adapter or external enclosure ( caddy ) to connect the drive to another machine.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SATA-Transfer-Adapter-Power-Drives/dp/B004ND4632/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1319701576&sr=8-2

 

This will enable us to do two things:

1. You should be able to locate any files / data that you have stored and retrieve them.

 

2. We can run a check on the drive from the second computer and hopefully correct the Boot Manager problem.

 

Let me know if you want to go down this route.