kennethk Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 So all of my drives are well and healthy but I just threw in a old 2tb drive next to a 500gb drive now I'm getting a bootmgr is missing error. Here's how I have my boot order 250GB Samsung Evo SSD (Running 8.1) 500GB WD Caviar blue (Win7 installed) 2TB forgot the model (Backed up media) So my main boot drive is the SSD of course, but whenever I let it load it says bootmgr is missing. If I go into bios and select the 500GB drive to boot it boots and give me the option to select from windows 8.1 and 7. But if I leave it alone and let it boot on its own it says bootmgr is missing. Anyone know why these drives are acting up like this? has to do with the 2tb drive because thats the most recent drive I put in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 (edited) Had this happen on every SSD upgrade I have ever done. Make sure you have the SSD in SATA slot 1 on the mobo, that is normally the issue. Then (this is probably your problem) disable the HDD that doesn't have an OS from the boot order. One or both of these steps has worked for me. I did have one more thing, that did help and that was setting the HDD to boot first, but in my windows 7 settings on my SSD set the boot order to itself first. Edited July 11, 2014 by Black64 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennethk Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 Is there a way to check which sata port its in through software? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 Should be in your BIOS, under drives Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennethk Posted July 14, 2014 Posted July 14, 2014 Looks like the ssd was plugged into port 6, will have to change that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanskiKow Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 It could be it was trying to dual boot the operating system. The first operating system in the list needs to be setup for dual boot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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