my hard drive went bad on my viao laptop so i bought one from e bay to replace it. i put it in and powered it up and i know it dont have an os in it but it read BOOTMGR IS MISSING . so i restart go into bios and dont see a cd or dvd drive in the boot menu but i see OPTICAL DRIVE so am assuming this means dvd drive.
tried to boot up with my xp cd and nothing . i also tried to boot up with my windows 7 disc and nothing. so how can i fix this bootmgr problem ? is the new hd bad or is it just missing files so it could read the cd ? never had a problem formatting or installing windows before but am stomped now..should the dvd drive be reading as OPTICAL DRIVE in bios menu ? please help !
tried to boot up with my xp cd and nothing . i also tried to boot up with my windows 7 disc and nothing. so how can i fix this bootmgr problem ? is the new hd bad or is it just missing files so it could read the cd ? never had a problem formatting or installing windows before but am stomped now..should the dvd drive be reading as OPTICAL DRIVE in bios menu ? please help !