Bootmgr on wrong drive :S

[xovius]

So, here is the deal.
I had a 120gb SSD for my os and important stuff but as I always found more and more important stuff to put there I eventually decided to upgrade to a 240gb SSD.
I preformed a clean installation of win8 on the new drive and when I had moved some files from the old SSD to the new one I formatted the old one.
No problems so far.

However, when I unplug the old SSD my computer won't boot. It just says that bootmgr is missing. The error disappears again once I plug the old SSD in again.

Since I can't actually see the files on the old ssd, how can I move the bootmgr over to the new SSD so I can finally sell off the old one?

 

[Feronix]

That's weird, seeing as you did a clean install.

May be just too obvious, but is your new SSD #1 in the boot order menu?

 

[xovius]

That's weird, seeing as you did a clean install.

May be just too obvious, but is your new SSD #1 in the boot order menu?

Yep. I think the problem is there because I should have removed the old SSD before installing windows on the new one. I could unplug the old one and do a fresh install on the new one again but I've been using it for quite a while so backing up my stuff and reinstalling would simply be too much work.

 

[maniac]

unfortunatly there is no way to move the bootmgr to my knowledge. happened to me aswell with an hdd installed while installing win7 on an ssd. I think removing the old ssd and re-installing is the only way.

 

[SieB]

This happened to me a few times on Windows 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4KBjT-Xfgo

 

[xovius]

This happened to me a few times on Windows 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4KBjT-Xfgo

Ive tried That Solution Quite A Few Times With Different Drives Plugged In and So Forth. Now I Have A New Error That Persists Even If I Plug The 120 Back In.

Reboot And select Proper Boot Devic3 Or Insert Boot Media In Selected Boot Device And Press A Key

 

[SieB]

Strange, that should fix the problem, it writes the bootmgr to the HDD.

Try command promt again but this time type the drive letter of your windows 7 disk drive e.g. D:\ or which ever letter is associated with the USB or disk drive.

Then type

copy bootmgr c:\ and press enter, then restart and see if it's fixed.

 

[xovius]

Not sure which is which. When I typed in bcdboot s:\windows /s c:
I get An error saying BFSVC Warning: Resume application Not Found. Note, If You Are Servicing Windows Pe/re boot Files You Can Ignore This Error
Failed To Set Element Application Device. Status [c00000bb]

 

[SieB]

Not sure what is going on then dude. Whenever I have had a bootmgr prob using the command line has always fixed it for me.

After googleing I saw this, try the "make sure your partition is active part."

Windows 8 works in the same way as 7 so it should be the same.

http://think-like-a-computer.com/2012/04/17/boot-bcd-0xc000000f-windows-7/

EDIT:

Also, are you using your Windows install disk from USB stick by any chance? If it's in a USB 3 port you need to move it to a USB 2 port. The recovery part of Windows doesn't support USB 3 and causes problems when writing the bootmgr.

 

[Cru]

Not sure which is which. When I typed in bcdboot s:\windows /s c:

enter diskpart and then list volume to see a list of your drives with the drive letter to make sure you get the right one

i actually got the same issue. tried that as well but it did nothing